The fact that Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi shared the title by hand during the past lightning chaching World Cup is not well received everywhere around a month after the historical event. Carlsens Zoff with the FIDE is also incomprehensible – especially with Grand Master Hans Niemann, who now once again handed over against his arch enemy Carlsen.
Grand Master Hans Niemann is one of the greatest critics of chess-light figure Magnus Carlsen. The American does not fit how much influence the 34-year-old takes on the chess world.
In the past few weeks, Carlsen gave two occasions that Niemann brought to the barricades: On the one hand, the Zoff between Carlsen and the World Association Fide, after the Norwegian had announced, together with his partner Jan Henric Buettner, his own “World Championship” in the variant To organize fishermen random chess. On the other hand, Magnus Carlsen’s decision to choose the co-champion together with Ian Nepomniachtchi during the past Blitzschach World Cup.
At the short message Service X, Niemann therefore recently fire in the direction of the best chess player ever.
“Arrogant, presumptuous, unsuspecting”: Niemann shoots against Carlsen
When Carlsen publicly demanded the resignation of Fide President Arkady Dvorskovich, the 21-year-old shot: “Arrogant, presumptuous, unsuspecting and, above all, cowardly. Your childish ego continues to distort the reality at the expense of chess. You have yourself outside Defeated the board, it is only a matter of time before you suffer the same fate on the board. “
And even when the world champion in the classic chess from 2013 to 2023 recently looked back on the turbulent days at the Blitzchach World Championships by means of his online platform “Take Take Take”, Niemann was unable to comment on: “This is the chance of the FIDE prove that it is an independent organization that gives priority to the chess in front of a single player.
Carlsen admits: “I haven’t thought through everything”
Niemann alluded to the fact that it was Carlsen who made his opponent proposal in New York to share the World Cup title.
Carlsen and Nepomniachi also played in the third tie-break game in a row, the Norwegian now known to “no longer believed in victory”.
“It was a combination of the feeling that it is a nice solution and from the fact that I wanted to go out of the game with the World Cup title. I honestly believed that it is a nice moment and I still think so “According to Carlsen, people also have to realize that in such moments you no longer think very much.
He did not regret the decision, but he had to admit: “In the end, people did not understand it as I hoped to jump up when the Olympic jumping up (the Italian Gianmarco Tamberi and the Katar Mutaz Essa Barshim agreed in the final of 2021 Tokyo not to make any further jump, so that both celebrated the Olympic victory, editor.
The world association FIDE had approved the proposal of the two chess players after a short examination and for the first time in the story awarded a shared World Cup title.