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CARLSEN TOURNAMENT: For the first time, the world’s best chess players will face off in a serious online tournament. It occurs due to the crown crisis, but it can have far-reaching consequences. Photo: Alina l’Ami, Tata Steel Chess
Saturday’s start at “The Magnus Carlsen Invitational” could mean more than just a break from the crown-closing sports. Maybe I can change chess forever?
“I think this is very exciting and I think the crisis may be the start of a new era for chess,” NRK expert Torstein Bae tells VG.
– Beyond tradition, there is no good reason why the top jacket should be so tied to physical gatherings.
Carlsen and seven other top chess players in the world will play online chess from April 18 to May 3 and compete for more than $ 2.5 million.
This is the first time that the best chess players have met in such a serious tournament on the net.
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– That fast chess and lightning chess are the future of chess, I think I have been clear for at least 20 years. Surprisingly long chess has functioned as a television sport here on the mountain, but it’s kind of absurd with a sport that a player can think about for an hour without anything happening, says Torstein Bae.
– What about the danger of cheating when players sit at home?
– Cheating is certainly something to think about and can happen even at the highest level, but it is possible to protect yourself well so that the problem is not greater than doping in other sports.
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Bae points out that there is also a Grand Tournament online currently.
– Playing online makes it easier to participate, regardless of financial resources. This can really make chess a global sport, “said Bae, who is also positive about the format of the Carlsen tournament.
– This is a historic moment for chess. Because it is possible to continue professional online games, we have not only the opportunity, but also the responsibility to players and fans around the world who need a distraction when no other sport is played, Magnus Carlsen said in a statement. release when he announced the tournament.
Chess expert: Torstein Bae. Photo: HALLGEIR VÅGENES Photo: Hallgeir Vågenes
The current world champion in the three traditional types of chess (long chess, fast chess and light chess) is also aware that he is taking this tournament very seriously.
Torstein Bae is not alone in responding positively to the online tournament that starts on Saturday.
“The quarantine chess tournament that can change the sport forever,” is the title of an article on theringer.com.
Here it is stated that Carlsen has taken the chess spikes in bed to organize such a tournament now, and that the Norwegian version of chess can “accelerate the sport of chess permanently”, that is, the “disciplines of speed” are They will do more and more with the traditional long jacket. , where it is not uncommon for parties to last in boats for five and six hours.
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Famous German chess player and chess commentator Jan Gustafsson has also spoken to theringer.com about long chess versus faster chess:
– Magnus and large parts of the younger generation will be mixed in quick chess forms. For me as a commentator and viewer, it’s exciting because it creates “action,” Gustafsson says before the tournament where these eight are:
Magnus CarlsenNorway Maxime Vachier-LagraveFrance Ding LirenChina Hikaru NakamuraUnited States Jan NepomnashchyRussia Fabiano CaruanaUnited States Anish Giri, Netherlands, Alireza FirouzjaIran
- The format is “soccer-like”. The eight participants meet for the first time in four games of fast chess (15 minutes plus 10 seconds for each move, with three points for victory and one point for reference). Then there is a Final Four with semifinal 1 on May 1, semifinal 2 on May 2, and then final on May 3.
- The tournament airs both on chess24.com partly owned by Carlsen and on TV 2 Sport2.
