The great master of chess of Norway Magnus Carlsen made gestures in a match of the Tata Steel Chess India tournament in Kolkata on November 17, 2024.
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Magnus Carlsen, the grand master of chess who became the public face of the game, was forced to a draw after an intense match played on 6 1/2 weeks – and it only took 143,000 opponents working together to do so.
In a freestyle match that Chess.com presented Magnus against Le Monde, Carlsen was opposed to a team made up of all the members of the online community who wanted to join.
The website has indicated that the number of players has reached a record of 143,000, while people around the world rushed to play against the legend of Norwegian failures.
The match started on April 4 and ended on Monday with a draw, after the players in the team world checked the kingsen play three times, forcing equality.
“Overall, the world has played very, very sound failures,” Carlsen told Chess.com towards the end of the match.
Presence of his opponents, who managed to force a draw in 32 movements, Carlsen told the website that the world team had been relentless in their gameplay.
“I felt that I was a little better at the start of the opening,” he said. “So maybe I haven’t played it precisely and, honestly, since then, they haven’t given me a single chance, so it was heading for the draw.”
Carlsen played the white pieces, taking the first step. Team World played the black parts, and each side had 24 hours to launch an opposing strike.
Team World’s movements have been decided by popular vote.
960 possible starting positions
The style of play used for this mega-tournoi is called Chess960, or Fischer Random Chess, named after the Juggernaut of the late Bobby Fischer chess.
In this form of failure, the pawns remain in their classic configuration, lining the first row of the field of each player, while the rear row of parts – including the knights, the bishops, the towers, the kings and the queens – are placed “semi -alleat”, according to Chess.com.
The 960 refers to the number of possible starting positions in the game.
Failures have become more popular
Craig Clawitter, American national master and professional chess instructor, was part of the horde of players who finally equaled Carlsen.
He said he was not really surprised that the game ended with equality, citing the recent explosion of the popularity of failures.
“The rest of the world improves so much in failures that these types of matches will probably end with prints, or honestly, the world could start to beat the only player very soon,” said Clawitter.
Call the boost in the rue des chess credit “The only good thing that happened from the pandemic”, the chess expert said that between many Americans being under rental following COVVI-19 and the publication of the popular mini-series Netflix The Gambit of the Queen The same year, people learned to fall in love with strategic sport.
“Chess is more an accepted and rather cool thing to do now, which is crazy because in high school, I hid it I played the chess of my friends because I didn’t want to be called a Dork, “said Clawitter.
