Magnus Carlsen reiterated his disinterest to return to the classic world failure championship, declaring that no opponent or challenge excites him enough to compete. He also criticized the format, arguing that there is a lack of creativity that makes him less attractive to him.
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Magnus Carlsen said that no opponent or challenge can try to participate again in the classical world chess championship. The five -time world champion and chess player No. 1 in the world Carlsen left the world championship title in 2022, citing a lack of motivation. “I am not motivated to play another match. I think I don’t have much to win, and I will simply not play, ”he said.
Over the years, Carlsen has argued that he was not interested in returning to the cycle of the Fid World Chess Championship because he believes that the classic format does not encourage creativity and that the movements have become very predictable with the rise of computer engines.
Carlsen had also struck the classic format after India’s D Gukesh became the youngest world chess champion in December 2024. The 34 -year -old Norwegian said at the time that classic failures were “the worst way” to decide a world champion because it was “too indulgent”.
Carlsen reiterates that he will not return to the world chess championship
The legend of failures is now involved in the promotion of the chess tour of the Grand Slam Freestyle, which started this year with the first leg in Germany. Carlsen is a co -owner of the organizing team and recommended freestyle failures on conventional failures because of its randomized starting positions.
However, is there a player or a challenge that can attract Carlsen to the world chess championship? He was questioned on this subject recently by appearing on the Bozelive Podcast. He replied: “No. I don’t think. I will not exclude anything, but for the moment, it seems very very improbable. I love playing classic time control and for that, I have freestyle, which I like and I also really like it and the blitz, so returning to the classic world championship is very improbable. “”
Explaining why he no longer likes to play classic failures, Carlsen said that the surannalysis of opening movements in the classic format had left very little space for creativity.
“We have come to a point where you can always find playable positions, but you have to achieve so far what is even close to what was considered optimal trials. All the best movements were almost thrown at this stage. It is clear from what is happening, this classic is always playable, but it becomes more and more difficult to find these tests, “he said.
Carlsen explains why he prefers freestyle on conventional failures
Carlsen has also said that the creativity room is the reason why he promotes freestyle failures, which is also known as fischer random failures. “As it actually allows the players to be creative, but essentially, you enter the form of the middle of the Move 1 environment and for the fans too, I think, many occasional fans who do not care if it is a Sicilian or a Spanish, they barely know anything. My wife has about 1100 fast on Chess.com. She plays the Sicilian as a black, which I taught her, but people are not going for the open Sicilian. As if they barely known two theory movements. »»
“According to my experience, people find it very exciting as we are as ignorant as others in terms of starting position.”
He added that freestyle failures are not in competition with conventional failures at the moment, but he hopes that it will become a popular variant in the future.
“It is not an objective for us to compete with conventional failures. I hope that over time, it will become more popular and that it will be a variant that people will also play at lower levels. »»
