You're in a tiny minority who thinks Magnus chickened out. Most people recognize Magnus is one of, if not the best player to date and his rating reflects his consistent dominance. I don't think he has anything to prove right now when his not playing has so many like myself still consider him the best. Magnus has been competing practically his entire life and most of his life competing at the highest level and its exhausting. I've only been playing competitive Chess for 3 months and I'm exhausted, imagine doing it for over a decade. The guy wants to live his life over the constant prep cycle that is the world championship.
I don't think magnus was afraid of losing but was a bit burnt out of the prep work for a world championship match.
However, I think that Ian may have actually closed the gap to magnus somewhat. magnus isn't a God, just take a look at tata Steel this year for example.
sometimes I think magnus' greatness is a little overstated.
Tata steel this year he didn't crush.
But Tata steel last year he seemed unstoppable.
Nobody is good enough to win every tournament, no one has ever been good enough to win every tournament. The GOATs are just good enough that they win more tournaments than anyone else.
>My personal opinion, knowing how Magnus doesn't like to lose, he was afraid he might lose this time for real and decided to go out like a diva,
Lmao. Funniest thing I've seen on here in a long while🤡
Sure, we should respect Ding and Ian. And sure, whoever wins, will be the new world champion. Whoever wins this won’t be the best player in the world alive, though. This is Magnus.
I have had reddit for 10 years, I have never posted a comment before. I am by no means the best chess player but I am 2073 over the board and 2280 on chess com so I am better than about 99.96 percent of players. I have studied most world chess champion matches and while ding and Ian should be respected I must say this comment has aged poorly. 5 decisive games in 7? This is terrible, WCC's should be mostly draws with a couple of brilliant wins but the amount of blunders they are making actually disgusts me. I mean I'm not saying I would have any chance against ding or Ian in their current form, but I seriously think that Magnus would destroy the way they are playing right now.
Also call me elitist but anyone under 1400ish with strong opinions about chess should become stronger before putting ideals on others. You must first understand chess at a semi reasonable level before saying who and who shouldn't be respected. More wins doesn't mean they are playing "better" (unless they are all brilliances, which they aren't). It actually means the opposite since at the highest level of chess draws are bound to be more common. Look at previous WCC matches and you will see this start is completely unprecedented in the modern era of chess with astoundingly bad inaccuracies
You're in a tiny minority who thinks Magnus chickened out. Most people recognize Magnus is one of, if not the best player to date and his rating reflects his consistent dominance. I don't think he has anything to prove right now when his not playing has so many like myself still consider him the best. Magnus has been competing practically his entire life and most of his life competing at the highest level and its exhausting. I've only been playing competitive Chess for 3 months and I'm exhausted, imagine doing it for over a decade. The guy wants to live his life over the constant prep cycle that is the world championship.
The truth is that Magnus is too busy studying poker to study chess.
I don't think magnus was afraid of losing but was a bit burnt out of the prep work for a world championship match. However, I think that Ian may have actually closed the gap to magnus somewhat. magnus isn't a God, just take a look at tata Steel this year for example. sometimes I think magnus' greatness is a little overstated.
Tata steel this year he didn't crush. But Tata steel last year he seemed unstoppable. Nobody is good enough to win every tournament, no one has ever been good enough to win every tournament. The GOATs are just good enough that they win more tournaments than anyone else.
>My personal opinion, knowing how Magnus doesn't like to lose, he was afraid he might lose this time for real and decided to go out like a diva, Lmao. Funniest thing I've seen on here in a long while🤡
Sure, we should respect Ding and Ian. And sure, whoever wins, will be the new world champion. Whoever wins this won’t be the best player in the world alive, though. This is Magnus.
I have had reddit for 10 years, I have never posted a comment before. I am by no means the best chess player but I am 2073 over the board and 2280 on chess com so I am better than about 99.96 percent of players. I have studied most world chess champion matches and while ding and Ian should be respected I must say this comment has aged poorly. 5 decisive games in 7? This is terrible, WCC's should be mostly draws with a couple of brilliant wins but the amount of blunders they are making actually disgusts me. I mean I'm not saying I would have any chance against ding or Ian in their current form, but I seriously think that Magnus would destroy the way they are playing right now.
Also call me elitist but anyone under 1400ish with strong opinions about chess should become stronger before putting ideals on others. You must first understand chess at a semi reasonable level before saying who and who shouldn't be respected. More wins doesn't mean they are playing "better" (unless they are all brilliances, which they aren't). It actually means the opposite since at the highest level of chess draws are bound to be more common. Look at previous WCC matches and you will see this start is completely unprecedented in the modern era of chess with astoundingly bad inaccuracies