Magnus Carlsen’s match-fixing video downplayed by FIDE president in blunt comment: ‘As for sharing the Blitz title…’

The Blitz ultimate started with two wins for Carlsen, and he regarded in complete management, needing solely a draw to seal the title. However then Ian Nepomniachtchi staged a comeback to win the following two video games, making it 2-2. Within the sudden demise, each Grandmasters performed out three attracts, adopted by the World No. 1 proposing that they share the title, which was agreed by his opponent.

In response to experiences, FIDE officers, who had been current within the venue, initially didn’t agree with Carlsen, however quickly fell to his demand. Then a video surfaced on social media, the place Carlsen could possibly be seen ordering Ian to play out quick attracts if the FIDE didn’t allow them to share the title. Since then, Carlsen has additionally publicly said that he was joking along with his opponent within the viral video, and it was a dig on the poor tie-breaker laws.

The video didn’t obtain a constructive response from followers, present and former gamers. Many chess Grandmasters identified that in different sports activities, a title conflict has stretched for hours until a winner wasn’t determined.

FIDE president defends Magnus Carlsen

Breaking his silence on the controversy for the first-time, FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich defended Carlsen in an interview with ChessBase India and criticised the laws.

“As for sharing the blitz title, I believe it’s a lesson when it comes to laws. The laws weren’t good. Mainly, we created the chance that it will possibly final ceaselessly, which isn’t good. After two video games no person would count on that it may find yourself like that, however Ian was again within the recreation, leveled the rating and it occurred,” he mentioned.

“So laws weren’t good, it’s clear. My argument principally was that gamers didn’t have actual motivation. It was evident even with none movies that I noticed solely subsequent morning about their joking solutions. I actually suppose it was form of a joke since they knew they had been being recorded, within the digital camera simply in entrance of them.

“Really, I didn’t see this video when taking the choice. I simply thought that there was no motivation at that time. Additionally, it was just some hours earlier than the New 12 months. Come on, we’re on all in festive mode already! OK, it’s sport and all of us need them to struggle to the very finish, however the motivation was already down, and it was actually tough to push and play exhausting. So at that time I didn’t see every other resolution and individuals who had been in communication with me didn’t recommend every other choice. So there was no dialogue about that principally, and everybody was kind of okay with it,” he added.

Apart from his controversies in New York, Carlsen has additionally been criticised by Indian chess followers, for his phrases on D Gukesh. After the 18-year-old defeated Ding Liren to change into the youngest world chess champion in historical past, Carlsen spoke on a podcast that the match wasn’t as much as the extent and criticised Gukesh.