World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen confirmed his return to the World Blitz Championship on Monday, after being fined and excluded from a late-round recreation on the Speedy C’Ship for refusing to vary his denims. Carlsen’s return comes after FIDE agreed to calm down their gown code rule, and FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich revealed that ‘appropriate jeans’ can be allowed.
Magnus Carlsen was just lately concerned in a jeans-related controversy.(PTI)
Commenting on the controversy, American grandmaster Hans Niemann just lately took an oblique dig at Carlsen on YouTube. Niemann and Carlsen have been concerned in an issue, which matches again to September 2022. Throughout the Sinquefield Cup, Carlsen misplaced to Niemann of their third spherical fixture, and the Norwegian dropped out of the event after that. His withdrawal was interpreted as accusing Niemann of dishonest. Of their subsequent event meet-up, a web based occasion, Carlsen resigned after just one transfer, additional fuelling rumours. Niemann additionally gave an interview the place he revealed he cheated in on-line chess previously, however denied doing so within the recreation with Carlsen or in any over-the-board recreation. It was adopted by Carlsen releasing a press release, publicly accusing Niemann of dishonest extra usually than he admitted.
Big accusations thrown at Magnus Carlsen
Talking on a Youtube channel, Niemann reacted to the controversy in New York by stating that it was helpful for Carlsen, as a consequence of his Freestyle Chess Tour. He stated, “This is just sort of a power play, right?”
“This is, you know, it’s a bit weird that people think that this is about jeans. This is a, you know… How do I word this? Let’s just say that I think that Magnus was very happy that he was kicked out of the tournament, because now he has the perfect excuse to completely challenge FIDE in a way he’s wanted to do for a very long time.“And with his, obviously, financial, you know, when it comes to the freestyle chess tour, which I was invited to, I guess because they had to by rating, and honestly, Jan Buettner, I have nothing negative to say about him. I even met him. Great things to say. I have nothing against the tour. I’m playing in a qualifier. But, you know, the reason why he’s doing this is just to discredit FIDE, so that his tour can be labelled as the official world championship, and they just raised 12 million dollars, right?”
The FIDE just lately got here to an official settlement with the Freestyle Chess Gamers Membership, and the FCPC press launch said that talks for an official championship have been ongoing. The settlement was facilitated by the likes of Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura. In the meantime, even reigning World Champion D Gukesh can be a part of the FCPC. A number of experiences have said that Carlsen and Nakamura threatened FIDE that they’d not take part on the year-ending World Speedy and Blitz C’ship if an settlement wasn’t reached. In the meantime, Carlsen has additionally accused FIDE of threatening gamers from the FCPC.
Niemann additionally went on to state that Carlsen ‘might be a shareholder in the company’. “It’s a big sort of investment, and how can you… I presume Magnus might be a shareholder in the company, just like he might be as a shareholder in Chess.com. Well, there was a merger, so I would, you know, I’ve gone on a bit, but this, in my opinion, was a coordinated and planned thing. It’s not some random thing that happened,” he stated.
“And this is the perfect way for them to discredit FIDE, and once they discredit FIDE, then they can call whatever they want their world championship, right? Because there’s this sort of battle. In the entire world of chess, you have all these people who are vying for the stupid name of the world championship. Like, you saw Chess.com announce their global championship, which was first called the world championship, and then I guess that was a test to see how FIDE would react, and then they change it to global, probably because of legal threats.
“But no, I feel like they’ve successfully sort of done a… They’ve won some… It’s a PR battle, and now there’s a… He has the complete, let’s say, protection to secede from FIDE, because there’s a jeans headline, which is, I guess, confusing people about what’s really happening,” he added.
Throughout their previous controversy, Niemann was additionally faraway from Chess.com. In the meantime, an investigation was additionally launched by FIDE. Niemann additionally filed a lawsuit towards Carlsen, his firm Play Magnus Group, Chess.com, Chess.com’s chief officer Daniel Rensh, Hikaru Nakamura for defamation and illegal collusion. The lawsuit was later dismissed, and Chess.com additionally revealed that every one events concerned within the lawsuit had settled. Chess.com additionally ended up reinstating Niemann on their platform and Carlsen said that he would play towards him in the event that they have been paired.