NEW DELHI: 5-time world chess champion and present world primary Magnus Carlsen has expressed his views on the classical chess format, claiming that the quicker type of the sport is “pure sport”.
He believes that classical chess will not be one of the simplest ways to find out the strongest participant as a result of it’s “too forgiving” and permits gamers to masks deficiencies of their recreation.
Carlsen argues that quicker chess codecs, equivalent to fast and blitz, require a extra well-rounded recreation and higher general abilities. He considers these codecs to be extra consultant of a “pure sport,” whereas longer types of chess, like classical, grow to be extra akin to “science” and “artwork.”
“It’s arduous to say precisely what measures the perfect participant general. I might say that proper now, in order for you the sort of chess through which you want essentially the most well-rounded recreation, classical chess might be the worst manner as a result of it’s type of too forgiving. It’s too simple to masks the deficiencies in your recreation. And I believe in the event you’re in a position to deal with each quicker chess and freestyle, you could have lined loads of bases. You do have your primary sample, and fast techniques,” Carlsen instructed the Take Take Take podcast. “Quicker chess, it’s a sport. It’s type of a pure sport sort of factor. However if you get to longer types of freestyle, it turns into like extra science, artwork.”
The Norwegian GM not too long ago criticised the standard of the 2024 World Chess Championship match between India’s D Gukesh and China’s Ding Liren, which Gukesh gained with a 7.5-6.5 margin.
Carlsen felt that the extent of play didn’t meet the expectations of a World Championship match.
“This doesn’t seem like a recreation between two World Championship contenders. It simply seems like possibly the second spherical or third spherical of an open match. It’s prefer it’s the stage the place you play any person who’s like first rate with openings however you then simply win with class,” he had earlier mentioned.
Regardless of not defending his title in 2023, Carlsen had beforehand gained the 2021 World Chess Championship by defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi.
Ding Liren, who completed second within the 2022 Candidates match, went on to face Nepomniachtchi and emerged victorious on tiebreaks to grow to be the defending champion.
Gukesh, who grew to become the youngest-ever world chess champion, acknowledged Carlsen’s superiority, stating that turning into the world champion doesn’t make him the perfect participant, and that Carlsen nonetheless holds that distinction.
“Changing into the world champion doesn’t imply I’m the perfect participant, clearly that’s Magnus,” Gukesh mentioned on the post-match press convention in Singapore.
