Magnus Carlsen expressed his disinterest with regard to the classic format, after having voluntarily decided to defend his world title in 2023. Does this indicate that he is at the twilight of his career and that his days as a player are counted?
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Magnus Carlsen has dominated failures for more than a decade now, to the point where he is already considered one of the greatest players of all time, if not the biggest, at 34 years old. The big Norwegian master is a classic world champion five times and has also won the title in the fast and blitz of the game.
Carlsen has also occupied place n ° 1 in the notes permanently since 2011, and dislodging it from this place is certainly quite the Herculean task for his opponents, from the Hikaru Nakamura experienced at rising stars such as the world champion reigning of gukesh.
For several months now, Carlsen has revealed a drop in interest in the classic form of the game. This also indicates a drop in interest in sport as a player and alludes to the Norwegian to go up to sunset as soon as possible?
Carlsen does not exclude mentoring in the future, but intends to continue playing
Although he does not exclude the prospect of supervising young talents in the future and shaping the next chess superstar, Carlsen insists that he has not yet finished with sport and wants to emphasize that he is “even better than children”.
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“I especially like to play, but I do not govern this (mentoring) for the future. I already appreciate when young players ask me for advice … But I have the impression that for the moment, I really like to play and I am really good. So, it can be something for the future,” Carlsen recently told Reuters.
“I certainly try to prove that I am always better than children,” he added, referring to an increasing rivalry with Gukesh and Arjun Erigaisi, which are classified respectively third and fifth in classic fide assessments.
Although he barely plays the classic format these days, Carlsen – supervised by the legendary Garry Kasparov himself at an early age – threw his weight behind the Freestyle failures which is based on the Fischer Random or Chess960 format.
