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Hikaru Nakamura, who combines streaming to over a million followers with a comeback to classical chess in his mid-30s, has won the American Cup, a $200,000 knockout including $60,000 for the winner. The defeated finalist, Wesley So, snatched a poisoned pawn and lost his queen in a 19-move decider.
Garry Kasparov, who held the world title from 1985 to 2000 and is regarded as Magnus Carlsen’s rival as the greatest player of all time, said next month’s Ian Nepomniachtchi v Ding Liren world title match “should include the strongest player on the planet, and this match doesn’t … It’s a kind of amputated event … The match between Nepo and Ding is a great show, but it’s not a world championship match.”
Magnus Carlsen chose last weekend’s Norwegian League in Oslo for his three final classical games as world champion. The world No 1 scored two wins as White, one where he crushed his opponent and the other an endgame grind transforming a draw into a win before halving his final game as Black against England’s David Howell.
It took less than a minute to reignite the feud. Hans Niemann v Magnus Carlsen at the Julius Baer Generation Cup opened conventionally with 1 d2-d4 Ng8-f6 2 c2-c4, but then Carlsen disappeared from the screen, the commentators were aghast, while Niemann shrugged and then also disconnected. The world champion’s father Henrik Carlsen had already announced that his normally media-friendly son would give no press interviews during the tournament. The action was captured live on the chess24 broadcast.
Magnus Carlsen will not defend his world championship title in 2023 against Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi. The five-times title winner will instead aim for a new record playing level.
Magnus Carlsen says he will not defend his World Chess Championship title in 2023 against Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi. The five-times winner is not retiring but promising “to be the best in the world” even if that means taking no part in chess’s showpiece event.
A head to head between the world champion and the leading pretender to the throne can be a game to savour. Magnus Carlsen and Ding Liren are both playing in the online Chessable Masters, which began on Thursday with an all-play-all of 16, followed next week by a knockout of the top eight.