Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
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Re: Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
#2Ladies, if he:
- doesn’t return your texts
- doesn’t comment on your pics
- offers a draw in a clearly superior position just as his opponent gets into time trouble in the final round of the World Chess Championships
- says he “doesn’t care” at the press conference when informed that all chess playing engines, grandmasters, and rank amateurs could see that he had a dominating position
- was previously legendary for his ruthless fighting spirit, grinding out wins against supergrandmasters with much less to work with
- is Norwegian
He’s not your man. He’s reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen, only one more misstep away from losing his crown to Fabiano Caruana.
#GoFabi
Re: Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
#3If anyone doesn't know, "Armageddon" is a type of chess game that guarantees a victor; it's not just a click-bait title. It's the last tiebreaker after a series of other Rapid and Blitz games. (all this is covered, just way at the end of the article)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_chess#Armageddon
fivethirtyeight has been covering the tournament and their rough calculation gives it a 1:5000 chance of making it to the Armageddon game, based on Carlesen's superior Rapid and Blitz rankings.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/carlsens-bizarre-decisi...
Re: Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
#4In past World Chess Championships when they finished tied with points the current champion retained the title, which I found disappointing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1987#...
Re: Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
#5Ladies, if he: - doesn’t return your texts - doesn’t comment on your pics - offers a draw in a clearly superior position just as his opponent gets into time trouble in the final round of the World Chess Championships - says he “doesn’t care” at the press conference when informed that all chess playing engines, grandmasters, and rank amateurs could see that he had a dominating position - was previously legendary for h…
Carlsen is not in the shape he used to be and I can understand his choice. I don't like his attitude, but he has all the rights to manage its tournament the way he thinks best.
Re: Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
#6tl;dr after 11 draws, Carlsen offered a draw from a superior position in the final game to head into the short-format tiebreaks, where:
> he is ranked No. 1 in all three formats (classical, rapid, and blitz). Caruana is ranked 10th and 18th in rapid and blitz respectively.
Critics are appalled that he didn't fight for the win out of sense of honor. I don't see how this is different than, for instance, fouling at the end of a basketball game. Hard to blame a player for working within the rules to put himself into a position where he feels he has a greater chance of keeping the title.
"It's not the critic who counts...."
Re: Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
#7Ladies, if he: - doesn’t return your texts - doesn’t comment on your pics - offers a draw in a clearly superior position just as his opponent gets into time trouble in the final round of the World Chess Championships - says he “doesn’t care” at the press conference when informed that all chess playing engines, grandmasters, and rank amateurs could see that he had a dominating position - was previously legendary for h…
Carlsen is not in the shape he used to be and I can understand his choice. I don't like his attitude, but he has all the rights to manage its tournament the way he thinks best.
Sure. I don’t like his attitude either, which is why I’m rooting for Fabi.
I understand he has the right to manage the tournament as he sees fit. I just don’t understand the logic of not even trying to push for a few more moves. Low risk, high reward given his huge time advantage.
Re: Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
#8tl;dr after 11 draws, Carlsen offered a draw from a superior position in the final game to head into the short-format tiebreaks, where: > he is ranked No. 1 in all three formats (classical, rapid, and blitz). Caruana is ranked 10th and 18th in rapid and blitz respectively. Critics are appalled that he didn't fight for the win out of sense of honor. I don't see how this is different than, for instance, fouling at the…
What I don’t understand is why Carlsen didn’t push for even a few more moves. Fabi was running out time, it was low risk for him to probe a little more and see if he could get something a little more decisive.
Re: Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
#9tl;dr after 11 draws, Carlsen offered a draw from a superior position in the final game to head into the short-format tiebreaks, where: > he is ranked No. 1 in all three formats (classical, rapid, and blitz). Caruana is ranked 10th and 18th in rapid and blitz respectively. Critics are appalled that he didn't fight for the win out of sense of honor. I don't see how this is different than, for instance, fouling at the…
What I don’t understand is why Carlsen didn’t push for even a few more moves. Fabi was running out time, it was low risk for him to probe a little more and see if he could get something a little more decisive.
I don't understand either. But Carlsen was in the seat for all 12 games, and he knows what was going on in his own head. Maybe he was simply exhausted and didn't trust his decision. Maybe that particular position gave him difficulty in a match four years ago. For whatever reason, the best chess player in the world decided that offering the draw was his best move in that moment.
Re: Armageddon Looms over World Chess Champs after Carlsen’s Shocking Decision
#10In past World Chess Championships when they finished tied with points the current champion retained the title, which I found disappointing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_1987#...
The effectively cointoss plan for this tourney isn't better. They should accept co-titles for equally matched players