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I'm not sure if letting the chess players be the arbiters of this is the best course of action though.

School-Cotton 4y ago
Nobody is claiming they should be. FIDE isn’t banning Hans based on Magnus’s vague suspicions, as indeed they shouldn’t. Magnus is just refusing to invest time and energy (and rating points) to play against someone he doesn’t like, which is absolutely his right. Nobody has the right to force Magnus or anyone else to play against them.
- gpm 4y ago
  > Magnus is just refusing to invest ... (and rating points) I think resigning on move 2 might just be investing rating points to avoid investing time and energy... not avoiding investing them.
  - School-Cotton 4y ago
    I’m confident Magnus doesn’t care about his rating on chess24.com. Was this tournament also FIDE rated? I genuinely don’t know and can’t find that information via google.
    - NhanH 4y ago
      It was not FIDE rated, no online tournament has been
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  I think you might want to read the rules of chess tournaments. You will quickly realise that in fact Magnus doesn’t have a choice of who he plays against and can’t actually resign for no reason.
  - School-Cotton 4y ago
    I agree with you, and I think throwing the game against Hans was poor form. My point was just that he has the right not to enter future tournaments to which Hans is invited.
  - rdlw 4y ago
    What rule is there against resigning?
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    - dwohnitmok 4y ago
      I'm not sure about the specifics of chess, but in most other kinds of competitions there are either explicit rules against or implicit agreements not to resign too early, i.e. throwing the match. If you resign when you are not actually losing, you are advantaging your opponent over all other players in the tournament (this matters a lot for tournaments with round-based elimination).
      - rdlw 4y ago
        That reason makes sense, and there are certainly rules in tournaments against early draws, but I'd never heard of a rule against resigning early. My understanding of Magnus playing one move was that you couldn't resign until the game started, so he just started the game and resigned immediately, but maybe that's mistaken. I guess it hasn't come up much since the personal loss of losing a game is usually pretty great at a high level. Maybe we'll see such rules after Magnus' resignation.
  - BurningFrog 4y ago
    You have the choice of which tournaments to play in though.
  - lupire 4y ago
    Can you please explain what you are insinuating? Magnus just recently quit a tournament and resigned a game in another one, storngy suggesting that you are mistaken.

Nobody is claiming they should be. FIDE isn’t banning Hans based on Magnus’s vague suspicions, as indeed they shouldn’t. Magnus is just refusing to invest time and energy (and rating points) to play against someone he doesn’t like, which is absolutely his right. Nobody has the right to force Magnus or anyone else to play against them.

gpm 4y ago
> Magnus is just refusing to invest ... (and rating points) I think resigning on move 2 might just be investing rating points to avoid investing time and energy... not avoiding investing them.
- School-Cotton 4y ago
  I’m confident Magnus doesn’t care about his rating on chess24.com. Was this tournament also FIDE rated? I genuinely don’t know and can’t find that information via google.
  - NhanH 4y ago
    It was not FIDE rated, no online tournament has been
WastingMyTime89 4y ago
I think you might want to read the rules of chess tournaments. You will quickly realise that in fact Magnus doesn’t have a choice of who he plays against and can’t actually resign for no reason.
- School-Cotton 4y ago
  I agree with you, and I think throwing the game against Hans was poor form. My point was just that he has the right not to enter future tournaments to which Hans is invited.
- rdlw 4y ago
  What rule is there against resigning?
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  - dwohnitmok 4y ago
    I'm not sure about the specifics of chess, but in most other kinds of competitions there are either explicit rules against or implicit agreements not to resign too early, i.e. throwing the match. If you resign when you are not actually losing, you are advantaging your opponent over all other players in the tournament (this matters a lot for tournaments with round-based elimination).
    - rdlw 4y ago
      That reason makes sense, and there are certainly rules in tournaments against early draws, but I'd never heard of a rule against resigning early. My understanding of Magnus playing one move was that you couldn't resign until the game started, so he just started the game and resigned immediately, but maybe that's mistaken. I guess it hasn't come up much since the personal loss of losing a game is usually pretty great at a high level. Maybe we'll see such rules after Magnus' resignation.
- BurningFrog 4y ago
  You have the choice of which tournaments to play in though.
- lupire 4y ago
  Can you please explain what you are insinuating? Magnus just recently quit a tournament and resigned a game in another one, storngy suggesting that you are mistaken.