There was nothing particularly amazing. His rise is not extraordinary. The only part that is slightly unusual is that it came towards his mid to late teens, whe

There was nothing particularly amazing. His rise is not extraordinary. The only part that is slightly unusual is that it came towards his mid to late teens, whereas such a rise is commonly seen in the early teens. However, even that can very easily be explained by the pandemic, where he used that time to dedicate himself to chess (which is something no one is questioning). Further, in the particular game he beat Magnus in, he did not play an extraordinary game or anything. He simply did not make any major mistakes. Whereas Magnus did. If imagine the majority of GMs playing in Hans’s position would have won that game.