Another indirect dig thrown at D Gukesh? Chess legend echoes Carlsen’s criticism: ‘Don’t want to see weaker players…’
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Another indirect dig thrown at D Gukesh? Chess legend echoes Carlsen’s criticism: ‘Don’t want to see weaker players…’

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Only 18-years-old, Indian Grandmaster D Gukesh recently became the youngest-ever world chess champion in history. Carlsen downplayed Gukesh’s win and went on to call classical chess the ‘worst way’ to decide the best player in the world. Chess legend supports Magnus Carlsen's sentiments Speaking in a podcast on the Take Take Take app, Aronian explained that if a player with a rating of 2600 gets proper training, then he or she can draw against a top-10 Grandmaster. If we think about this, if we take well-disciplined guy, let’s say a level of 2600 who studies let’s say in the openings improved Tarrasch, you know, CDCD and he studies against e4 to play the Petrov knight e5 knight e4.” “So, basically, if we train a guy like this, he’ll be able in 80 per cent of the time to make a draw against top 10 players. I don’t want to see the weaker player completely neutralising the stronger player.” The 42-year-old also went on to compare chess with boxing and MMA, in an attempt to explain why the rapid version should be preferred.

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