World No 1 Magnus Carlsen makes profitable return to chess a little bit over per week after marriage

Chess world No 1 Magnus Carlsen made a profitable return a little bit over per week after getting married, defeating Dutch Grandmaster Max Warmerdam in Hamburg, Germany in his first Classical sport in almost 4 months. The five-time world champion’s victory helped St Pauli gather their first win of the 2024-25 Chess Bundesliga. This was after the Norwegian GM drew towards China’s Wei Yi on Sunday as St Pauli suffered a slender defeat towards co-leaders Dusseldorf.

“It’s after all very, very good to begin off married life as a chess participant with a win!” Carlsen was quoted as saying by Chess.com.

Carlsen had married Ella Victoria Malone at a non-public ceremony in Oslo on 4 January. The honeymoon, nonetheless, barely lasted per week and the chess icon discovered himself sitting in entrance of a board very quickly.

“I’ve had a really, very good final week and as we speak is form of again to work,” added Carlsen, who had
shared the Blitz world title with Russian GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in New York Metropolis on New Yr’s Eve.

Magnus Carlsen makes his debut for FC St. Pauli within the German Chess Bundesliga. And in case you had been questioning: he is sporting denims. pic.twitter.com/Ue2OggO8xC

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Carlsen represents the chess group of St. Pauli, the Hamburg-based membership that’s primarily recognized for its soccer group that presently competes within the Bundesliga – Germany’s high membership soccer division. St Pauli is thought for its passionate followers in addition to for its left-wing politics – the membership had lately joined the pattern of boycotting the Elon Musk-owned X (previously Twitter), following the footsteps of British newspaper The Guardian.

Carlsen is claimed to be a fan of St Pauli’s soccer group and had obtained monetary assist from Freestyle Chess founder Jan Henric Buettner and the Weissenhaus Chess Academy for representing the membership within the Chess Bundesliga.

“The group clearly didn’t have one of the best begin to the season, so I feel at this level we’re simply attempting to climb up the desk slowly, and naturally I used to be blissful to assist as we speak,” Carlsen added.