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Magnus Carlsen hit his opponent hard in the championship match. Is his era over?

Date: March 29, 2024 Time: 19:39:22

Magnus Carlsen hit his opponent hard in the championship match. Is his time over?

Alexander Fedyakov May 31, 2023, 13:15 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.

We urgently need to ban classical chess. Otherwise, the former champion will look pretty pathetic.

Is Magnus Carlsen still the strongest chess player in the world? Judging by the rating, yes. But the aura of invincibility is getting further and further away from the Norwegian. Magnus started the home super tournament in Stavanger with a heavy loss to the American Fabiano Caruana. The former world champion resigned on move 35.

Carlsen didn’t just lose a game to his opponent in the 2018 championship match. He hit hard, as if Caruana were a player from another league, much better. The same league, in which for a long time only Magnus himself was, and there was no one nearby. Carlsen, known for his ability to extract water from stone, simply gave up.

Just a few days ago, Carlsen played another super tournament in Warsaw. True, there was rapid chess and blitz. And in rapid chess, the former world champion seemed a pale shadow of himself. Only in the bombardment did he again appear invincible, ready to destroy everyone in a row.

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But in Norway they play “classics”. The same “classic” that Magnus suddenly stopped liking, that he had not played for a long time and for which he had not prepared for a long time. Of course, the tournament has only just begun, and Carlsen will certainly prove his worth in games with unappreciated time controls. But such defeats, when the opponent confidently won in the class, and not due to some kind of mistake …

The Norwegian almost never had them in his entire career. Is Carlsen really that tired of classical chess? Or is he not prepared to play “classics” for several hours in person? Then he must ban this “classic”, otherwise all the aura of invincibility and legend will fly from Magnus very quickly.

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Perhaps Levon Aronian was right when, in an interview with the Championship, he suggested that Carlsen would have lost the championship match to Nepomniachtchi if he had agreed to play anyway.

However, it’s even more interesting to look at Magnus. Because the possibilities of it are, in fact, almost limitless. Will he be able to readjust and show chess at an outstanding level? Or will he just go with the flow, not caring at all about the end result and his status as a world leader? Although it is too early to draw conclusions.

But damn, is the Carlsen era gone? So far this is not very hard to believe, but the former champion himself is trying his best to be like everyone else.

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