{"id":20230,"date":"2022-07-20T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T13:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/breaking-magnus-carlsen-will-not-defend-world-championship-title\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T13:44:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T13:44:55","slug":"breaking-magnus-carlsen-will-not-defend-world-championship-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/breaking-magnus-carlsen-will-not-defend-world-championship-title\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Magnus Carlsen Will Not Defend World Championship Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>GM Magnus Carlsen will not defend his world championship title against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi next year.  Carlsen said this in a podcast on Tuesday.  According to current regulations, FIDE Candidates Tournament winner Nepomniachtchi will now play the world championship against Candidates runner-up GM Ding Liren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken to people in my team, I&#8217;ve spoken to FIDE, I spoke to Ian as well. The conclusion is very simple: I&#8217;m not motivated to play another match,&#8221; said Carlsen.  &#8220;I don&#8217;t have a lot to gain, I don&#8217;t particularly like it and although I&#8217;m sure a match would be interesting for historical reasons, I don&#8217;t have any inclinations to play and I will simply not play the match &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Carlsen thus confirmed the earlier doubts he had expressed on December 14, 2021 and later repeated: after playing five world championship matches, he is not enjoying them anymore. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been an interesting ride since I decided to play the Candidates in 2013, which was to be honest on kind of a whim. I just decided it could be interesting and ever since the World Championship title has given me a lot and opened a lot of doors, and I&#8217;m happy about that. The matches themselves has been at times interesting, at times a little bit of fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian star leaves the door open to return for a match one day, but it&#8217;s not likely: &#8220;I don&#8217;t rule out participation in the future, but I also wouldn&#8217;t count on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"video-defer video-defer-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chess.com\/bundles\/web\/images\/video-placeholder.9e5d549f.svg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/731653807?h=e583ec3be0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #7e8c8d;\"><em>Carlsen made his statements in the first episode of the new podcast &#8220;The Magnus Effect.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>During the FIDE Candidates tournament, Carlsen had a meeting with FIDE&#8217;s President Arkady Dvorkovich and Director-General Emil Sutovsky, which apparently didn&#8217;t sort enough effect to convince Carlsen to defend his title a fifth time. <\/p>\n<p>Talking about this meeting in Madrid, Carlsen said: &#8220;I did not have any demands or suggestions for that meeting. They did have a couple of suggestions, but the gist of it was that I was there to tell them that I would not defend my title in the next WCC match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dvorkovich told Chess.com that he respects the world champion&#8217;s decision, and confirmed that according to the rules, there will now be a Ding-Nepomniachtchi match.<\/p>\n<figure>&#13;<figcaption class=\"figcaption\">Ding and Nepomniachtchi will now play the world championship.  Photo: Maria Emelianova\/Chess.com.<\/figcaption>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As it turned out, Carlsen never really changed his mind on a feeling he has had for a while.  &#8220;Ultimately, the conclusion stands, one that I&#8217;m pretty comfortable with, one that I thought a lot about for a long time now,&#8221; he said.  &#8220;I would say more than a year, probably a year and a half. Long before the last match.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t help that Nepomniachtchi qualified for a second match with Carlsen, who had stated earlier that he preferred an opponent of the new generation, in particular GM Alireza Firouzja.  &#8220;Four championships to five\u2014it didn&#8217;t mean anything to me. It was nothing,&#8221; said Carlsen in yesterday&#8217;s podcast.  &#8220;I was satisfied with the job I had done. I was happy I had not lost the match. But that was it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carlsen also repeated once again that he intends to continue playing, just not matches: &#8220;Just so there is not ambiguity here: I&#8217;m not retiring from chess, I&#8217;m gonna be an active player, I&#8217;m leaving later today to go to Croatia to play the Grand Chess Tour. From there on I&#8217;m gonna go to Chennai to play the Olympiad, which is gonna be a lot of fun and the Norwegian team is seeded as number four there. And to Miami which is gonna be one of the real highlights of the year\u2014the FTX Crypto Cup which is gonna be awesome. And right after that the Sinquefield Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of feelings around mind right now that I have to deal with, said Ding in a first reaction to Chess.com. &#8220;But I am very excited about playing a world championship match, to fight for the crown, next year &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Calling from Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere he is staying at a friend&#8217;s apartment, Ding revealed that he got Covid right after the Candidates Tournament and therefore couldn&#8217;t fly back to China yet.  Already fully recovered, he will now travel back in about two weeks from now.  The Chinese player is surprised about Carlsen&#8217;s decision:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I knew he had doubts, but I expected him to play. But I understand it also, being world champion means a lot of responsibilities, there are a lot of things to handle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure><img class=\"img-defer img-defer-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.chesscomfiles.com\/uploads\/v1\/images_users\/tiny_mce\/PeterDoggers\/php1GgCT2.png?ssl=1\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto;\" alt=\"Ding Liren Zoom call\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/>&#13;<figcaption class=\"figcaption\">Ding Liren in a Zoom call from Barcelona with Chess.com.<\/figcaption>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ding pointed out the similarities with Yuzuru Hanyu, the Japanese figure skater who, also yesterday, announced retirement from competition but promised to pursue his goal in exhibitions instead.<\/p>\n<p>The chess world has seen previous moments in history when the world champion did not defend his title.  In 1946, GM Alexander Alekhine died as the reigning champion, when a world championship tournament was organized two years later, won by GM Mikhail Botvinnik.  In 1975, GM Bobby Fischer could not agree with FIDE on the match format and lost his title to Candidates winner GM Anatoly Karpov.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, GM Garry Kasparov left FIDE and played a world championship under the Professional Chess Association instead.  This led to a schism in the chess world that lasted until 2006, when GM Vladimir Kramnik won a reunification match with FIDE champion GM Veselin Topalov.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not an ideal situation that the best player is not defending his title, and creating your own organization is also not great,&#8221; said Ding, adding: &#8220;It&#8217;s better for the fans if the best players fight for the world championship and Magnus has of course been the best player throughout the years. We came to a new era.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ding did say that he hopes Carlsen will &#8220;return one day&#8221; and felt that reaching the highest possible competition also gives himself a new responsibility: &#8220;I have to improve my English now!&#8221;<em\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GM Magnus Carlsen will not defend his world championship title against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi next year. Carlsen said this in a podcast on Tuesday. According to current regulations, FIDE Candidates Tournament winner Nepomniachtchi will now play the world championship against Candidates runner-up GM Ding Liren. &#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken to people in my team, I&#8217;ve spoken to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/breaking-magnus-carlsen-will-not-defend-world-championship-title\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BREAKING: Magnus Carlsen Will Not Defend World Championship Title<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20355,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/magnus-carlsen-will-not-defend-his-world-chess-championship-title-in-2023-magnus-carlsen\/","url_meta":{"origin":20230,"position":0},"title":"Magnus Carlsen will not defend his World Chess Championship title in 2023 |  Magnus Carlsen","date":"July 20, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Magnus Carlsen says he will not defend his World Chess Championship title in 2023 against Russia's Ian Nepomniachtchi. 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