World chess champion Magnus Carlsen has lost to a 16-year-old opponent from India. In the face of defeat, he found words of praise for his opponent.
As soon as the fuss about the allegations of cheating in the chess scene subsided a little, world champion Magnus Carlsen made the headlines again. The Norwegian suffered a bitter defeat in the “Aimchess Rapid” tournament. He lost to 16-year-old Indian Donnarumma Gukesh on Monday. Never before has a younger player defeated the world champion.
“Winning against Magnus is always special, but I wasn’t very proud of my game today,” he said. As the “” reports, Carlsen had an advantage in the game – until he made a momentous move “that put him completely behind”.
World chess champion praises the opponent
After the game, the world champion found words of praise for his opponent. “He recently played extremely impressively in classical chess. This rapid chess victory was perhaps not his proudest achievement. But winning is always nice,” the sports portal quoted the 31-year-old as saying. A few days earlier, Carlsen had already lost to a 19-year-old who also comes from India. Aimchess Rapid is the eighth of nine tournaments on the $1.6 million Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2022. Carlsen is currently in first place on the tour.
In the past few weeks, the Norwegian has caused a stir, mainly because of the dispute with the American Hans Niemann. The 31-year-old had long suspected that Niemann was cheating in chess. At the end of September he made his assumption public for the first time. The Norwegian had previously met Niemann in the middle of the month in a top-class online tournament and ended the game after a move without comment.
The “chess.com” platform also speculated that the 19-year-old American had “probably cheated in more than 100 online chess games”. A discussion that will keep the chess world busy for a long time: the world federation announced that it would set up an investigative commission.
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Source: Stern
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