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How an all-night drinking session cost Magnus Carlsen the London Chess Classic in 2012

Magnus Carlsen has reasons to cherish the London Chess Classic triumph in 2012. He achieved one of the finest tournament results of his storied career, accumulating 18 points to finish ahead of Vladimir Kramnik, besides breaking Garry Kasparov’s rating record of 2851. But he recounts to his friend Odin Blikra Vea in a podcast, about a drunken night at a London bar that almost cost him the tournament. He was dueling British Grandmaster Luke McShane on his 22nd birthday, but the night before the game Carlsen, his second Ian Nepomniachtchi and friends went out bowling. But it did not stop there. “We were supposed to just go out bowling and have a nice dinner to celebrate my birthday — then it turned into something else,” Carlsen recollects. Nepo wisely left after bowling, but Carlsen and...
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Magnus Carlsen: Classical chess is just too frustrating

Five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen’s reign as World champion ended on Sunday with Chinese GM Ding Liren beating Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi to be crowned the new world champion. The Norwegian, who’s still World No. 1 by some distance, wasn’t interested in defending his world title in classical chess. Speaking on a Norwegian chess podcast Sjakksnakk, run by his friends Askild Bryn and Odin Blikra Vea, Carlsen said though he’d like to remain the top player in the world, he’s become a little rusty in classical chess. “The number-one spot on the world rankings has been important for me for quite a few years, but now I feel like I just don’t play much classical chess, so its significance changes. I know that when I decide to play classical in the first place, I usually perform on a decen...