{"id":20338,"date":"2022-07-20T16:07:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/an-unmotivated-magnus-carlsen-will-give-up-world-chess-title\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T16:07:49","slug":"an-unmotivated-magnus-carlsen-will-give-up-world-chess-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/an-unmotivated-magnus-carlsen-will-give-up-world-chess-title\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unmotivated Magnus Carlsen Will Give Up World Chess Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Magnus Carlsen is the world chess champion, and by acclamation one of the very best players in history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But on Wednesday he said he would not play in next year&#8217;s world championship, voluntarily surrendering the title he has held since he won it in 2013 at age 22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now 31 and a five-time world champion, Carlsen <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damilojusaliu\/status\/1549710624476758017?s=20&amp;t=Y2BBoBw2NDvOzFGi9TuWGA\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">said he was<\/a> \u201cpretty comfortable\u201d with the decision, which he said he had thought about for \u201cmore than a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI am not motivated to play another match;  I simply feel that I don&#8217;t have a lot to gain,\u201d he said on the first episode of his new podcast, the Magnus Effect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cAlthough I&#8217;m sure a match would be interesting for historical reasons and all of that, I don&#8217;t have any inclination to play, and I will simply not play the match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlsen made the announcement on International Chess Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlsen had been scheduled to defend his title against the Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi in 2023. Now, Nepomniachtchi will instead play Ding Liren of China, with the winner claiming the vacant title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlsen said he did not particularly enjoy playing at the world championship, which is staged as a 12-to-14-game one-on-one battle over several weeks.  He won his most recent title by beating Nepomniachtchi in December in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe matches themselves have been at times interesting, at times a little bit of fun,\u201d Carlsen said.  \u201cBut overall, I feel like it&#8217;s my time to go from the world championship matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlsen said he would continue playing competitive chess.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI enjoy playing tournaments a lot,\u201d he said on the podcast.  \u201cObviously, I enjoy them a lot more than I enjoy the world championship, and frankly I don&#8217;t see myself stopping as a chess player any time soon.\u201d  He said he was heading to Croatia for a tournament later Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlsen became a grandmaster at 13, and the world&#8217;s top-rated player by 19. He won the world title in 2013, dethroning Viswanathan Anand, and defended it four times, defeating Anand again, then Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana and most recently Nepomniachtchi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlsen&#8217;s absence will leave an enormous hole at the summit of the chess world.  He is the game&#8217;s biggest star by a wide margin, and his name is probably the only one known to many with a casual interest in the game.  That recognition has allowed him to expand his brand, and his fortune, through a series of ventures teaching and selling the game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His top rating of 2882 is the highest ever achieved.  Chess.com selected him this year as the second best player of all time, behind Garry Kasparov and one spot ahead of Bobby Fischer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMagnus is not tired, but I think he&#8217;s bored with too many matches,\u201d Kasparov told the St.  Louis Chess Club earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlsen has become interested in poker in recent years, and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PokerGO\/status\/1544578120048447488?s=20&amp;t=55QjM8xwlOeGk3iclh6eKg\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">he played in the main event<\/a> at the World Series of Poker last week.  Indeed his podcast on Wednesday began with a discussion of poker and Las Vegas, and he saved his announcement about surrendering the world title until 50 minutes had elapsed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Carlsen is one of a small handful of top sports figures who walked away while at the very top of their game.  Many of them eventually came back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI don&#8217;t rule out a return in the future,\u201d he said Wednesday.  \u201cBut I wouldn&#8217;t particularly count on it either.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnus Carlsen is the world chess champion, and by acclamation one of the very best players in history. But on Wednesday he said he would not play in next year&#8217;s world championship, voluntarily surrendering the title he has held since he won it in 2013 at age 22. Now 31 and a five-time world champion, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/an-unmotivated-magnus-carlsen-will-give-up-world-chess-title\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Unmotivated Magnus Carlsen Will Give Up World Chess 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":21288,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/magnus-carlsen-to-give-up-world-chess-title-because-hes-not-motivated\/","url_meta":{"origin":20338,"position":0},"title":"Magnus Carlsen to give up world chess title because he&#8217;s not motivated","date":"July 21, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Comment on this storyCommentMagnus Carlsen, the reigning world chess champion, has announced he will not defend his title next year because he is just \u201cnot motivated to play another match\u201d at the World Chess Championship.\u201cI simply feel that I don't have a lot to gain,\u201d Carlsen said Wednesday.The Norwegian wunderkind\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Sports&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":20355,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/magnus-carlsen-will-not-defend-his-world-chess-championship-title-in-2023-magnus-carlsen\/","url_meta":{"origin":20338,"position":1},"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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