Niemann takes an enormous swipe after Carlsen fails to achieve Freestyle Chess Las Vegas knockouts: ‘Karma is a….’

The opening day of the
Las Vegas leg of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour could have left everybody in attendance in addition to chess followers world wide with their jaws hanging. In any case, world No 1 Magnus Carlsen – who’s firmly within the lead within the general standings – getting knocked out within the group stage.

Freestyle Chess co-founder Carlsen completed on the fifth spot within the White Group with 4 factors after struggling three defeats,
together with towards India’s R Praggnanandhaa in addition to within the fourth-spot tie-breaker towards American Grandmaster Levon Aronian.

In contrast to the earlier occasions within the Grand Slam Tour, the Las Vegas leg has 16 gamers divided into two teams, with the highest 4 from every group qualifying for the quarter-finals which marks the start of the knockouts.

And for Carlsen to not even make it to the quarter-finals after back-to-back wins in Paris and Kalrsruhe – registering a p.c 9/9 within the latter – comes as a shock greater than his semi-final loss towards German GM Vincent Keymer within the tour opener in Weissenhaus.

Niemann reacts to Carlsen’s early exit from Las Vegas Grand Slam

American Grandmaster Hans Niemann, who’s enjoying within the Black Group alongside compatriots Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana in addition to India’s Arjun Erigaisi, couldn’t assist however take a giant swipe on the world No 1 after he bought relegated to the ‘Losers’ bracket. Niemann was commentating on the Carlsen vs Aronian tie-breaker within the commentary sales space alongside GM David Howell and IM Tania Sachdev and didn’t conceal his feelings in the course of the course of the battle.

“There are only a few pleasures in life that evaluate to this sense,” Niemann had stated within the commentary sales space after Aronian defeated Carlsen in Sport 1 of their fourth-spot tie-breaker on Wednesday after each gamers completed stage on 4 factors.

“You recognize what they are saying, karma is a…. I don’t wish to end the sentence. Levon, I’m taking you to dinner tonight,” the 22-year-old added.

Watch Niemann’s reactions right here:

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Niemann’s response is comprehensible to say the least if one is conscious of his historical past with Carlsen. The controversial GM, in any case, had filed a $100 million lawsuit towards the Norwegian chess icon after the latter had accused him of dishonest within the 2022 Sinquefield Cup.

And regardless that each events reached an out-of-court settlement along with his lawsuit in the end getting dismissed by a federal choose a yr later, Niemann and Carlsen have been hostile in direction of one another ever since, buying and selling barbs sometimes.

Niemann was scheduled to take part within the Paris Grand Slam however pulled out of the occasion within the final minute with out providing a proof.