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“Iranian teen” makes it a better headline, anonymizing him makes it more of an out-of-nowhere sports story. Stop looking for racism in everything, you’re lookin

• chongli 7y ago
  out-of-nowhere sports story I’m more annoyed by the headline’s implication that Carlsen would find this defeat shocking. He wouldn’t. Magnus and Alireza have been acquainted for a few years now. They’ve played many times. Carlsen is fully aware of how strong his opponent is.
  • V-2 7y ago
    He might have been fazed for sure. Carlsen is famously grumpy about losing. And there's a big difference between losing a single game, and losing a match consisting of several games. It's much more difficult to dismiss the latter as a fluke. Now obviously this wasn't a fully serious match format, but then again Carlsen prides himself on his dominance under short time controls. after all, it was in rapid playoffs that he defended his world champion crown against both Karjakin and Caruana. It was only once it came to that when he would simply blow them out of the water.
  • shmageggy 7y ago
    Plus they directly contradict themselves in the story > Before the clash, the world no.1 player didn't underestimate Firouzja, calling him "by far my biggest challenge."
• cambalache 7y ago
  It it not racist of course, just dumb.