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Ian Nepomniachtchi, Fabiano Caruana cry foul over Magnus Carlsen being given additional privileges at FIDE World Rapid and Blitz event

The ongoing FIDE Rapid and Blitz Championship at Samarkand has run into controversy with multiple participating grandmasters taking to social media to complain about FIDE giving preferential treatment to former world champion Magnus Carlsen. Players like Ian Nepomniachtchi, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier Lagrave and Pentala Harikrishna tweeted about Carsen being provided additional facilities like a private lounge between games. Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik also chimed in, calling out FIDE. It is learnt that Carlsen has been provided a private lounge since 2016 at every edition of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz championship. Compared to the World Chess Championship, the World Rapid and Blitz event happens yearly. Players compete in multiple games in a day: in the open sectio...
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The important thing is to control the middle: Magnus Carlsen discusses similarities between football and chess with Pep Guardiola

Two modern icons met face to face recently as treble winning coach Pep Guardiola and 5-time chess world champion Magnus Carlsen engaged in riveting conversation. In a video shared by Puma, Carlsen who is a known football fan and a supporter of Spanish giants Real Madrid, explained to Guardiola how the two sports were similar. “The important thing is to control the middle. If you control the middle, you control the pitch or the board,” Carlsen said while also adding that he used to play football in his formative years but because he was better at chess, he pursued that. Watch the full video here👇https://t.co/bZSPN0tjLQ — Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) December 12, 2023 “Another thing is that often in chess you attack on one side, force the opponent to overload and then you switch and y...
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As soon as I saw my opponent wearing a watch early in game, I lost my ability to concentrate: Magnus Carlsen says after losing at Qatar Masters

5-time world champion Magnus Carlsen on Thursday said that he lost in the Qatar Masters chess event because his opponent, 23-year-old Kazakh GM Alisher Suleymenov, ‘was wearing a watch early in the game’ which made him lose concentration. The last time Carlsen was defeated by a player rated below 2520 was in the Norwegian Championship 2006 where he lost to Berge Ostenstad who was rated 2480. Carlsen also expressed his frustration with the organisers for ‘still not taking anti-cheating seriously at all.’ “I was completely crushed in my game today. This is not to accuse my opponent of anything, who played an amazing game and deserved to win, but honestly, as soon as I saw my opponent was wearing a watch early in the game, I lost my ability to concentrate,” Carlsen wrote on X, formerly Twi...
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Magnus Carlsen ‘willing to play Hans Niemann in future events’ after agreement

World No 1 Magnus Carlsen has said that he is willing to play against American chess player Hans Niemann in the future after accepting the results of a probe from Chess.com which stated that there is “no determinative evidence” that Niemann cheated in his game against Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup last year. “I acknowledge and understand Chess.com’s report, including its statement that there is no determinative evidence that Niemann cheated in his game against me at the Sinquefield Cup. I am willing to play Niemann in future events, should we be paired together,” Carlsen, who recently won the FIDE World Cup, was quoted as saying in a release published by Chess.com on Monday. “I am pleased that my lawsuit against Magnus Carlsen and Chess.com has been resolved in a mutually acceptable ma...
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Meals turn into mentoring sessions as Magnus Carlsen takes India’s teenaged trio under wings

On Friday, after the SG Alpine Warriors had lost a game in the Global Chess League against the Viswanathan Anand-led Ganges Grandmasters, a message buzzed on the team’s WhatsApp group chat which has not only all the team players but also people from the ownership group. It was from Magnus Carlsen. The Norwegian World No 1 wanted the team to catch up for a meeting over dinner in the team hotel. The message was more than a dinner invitation. It was a step taken by the team’s enigmatic superstar to put the rest of the team, particularly the three young teenage prodigies — Gukesh D, Arjun Erigaisi and R Praggnanandhaa — into their comfort zone in a franchise-based mixed-team environment, that not many of them had played in before. It was Carlsen’s way of breaking the ice. Gukesh, talking to...