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His biggest challenge is next generation of younger prodigies like Pragg. He clapped at the end of their game in appreciation of Pragg. He's not paranoid about
by manojlds 4y ago
His biggest challenge is next generation of younger prodigies like Pragg. He clapped at the end of their game in appreciation of Pragg. He's not paranoid about being usurped and knowing him through the years, he is going to take that as a challenge.
- H8crilA 4y ago
- manojlds 4y agoI am not supporting Magnus on his actions here. Just that this behaviour is a massive outlier for him.
- H8crilA 4y agoYes, and it doesn't matter.
- Cederfjard 4y agoWho are you to decide for whom it does and does not matter? Like others have said, this isn’t a court of law. You have made your standard here clear, cool. Other people have other standards they apply to various situations, and they are using those to discuss this specific topic.
- H8crilA 4y agoOk, but the other presented standards are obviously ridiculous. "This guy is famous and a master of the game, so I'm going to trust him when he's seriously trashing some young guy." I am someone who can think.
- LeonB 4y agoUnlike pretty much everything in Chess, this is an international news story. That’s quite significant.
- Tenoke 4y agoHans made a comment after their game but before the drama - "Must be embarrassing for the World Champion to lose to such an idiot like me" which couldve easily tilted Magnus more than a simple loss with black (rather than white) or draw with someone like Pragg.
- me_me_me 4y agothis is not an online game where people rage quit. Carlsen himself said something akin to "Watzkin didn't have thick enough skin to become chess world champion", if you knew a bit about chess you wouldn't suggest this silly explanation
- Tenoke 4y agoFischer (e.g. 1975), Kasparov (e.g. screw you I'll make my own federation with hookers and blow) are both as prominent players to do things even more qualifying of a ragequit than this though there's plenty of examples more similar to this event. Suggesting that pro chess players don't tilt is absurd given that we've seen it happen plenty of times, often after losses.