Immediately 34-year-old chess champion Magnus Carlsen married 26-year-old Ella Victoria Malone, “in a ceremony filled with friends on a sunny winter day in Oslo,” stories Chess.com.
In accordance with Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, a movie crew from Netflix was additionally current. The streaming big is taking pictures a chess-related TV present rumored to air in 2025… Ella Victoria is now anticipated to have a extra central position in her husband’s profession. In accordance with VG, she performed an important position in securing Magnus a take care of style model G-Star Uncooked…
Their wedding ceremony was certainly a fairy story, however the Carlsens aren’t heading for his or her honeymoon simply but. Magnus is ready to make his debut for St. Pauli within the German Bundesliga on January 10, when he’ll face Dusseldorf led by none aside from GM Gukesh Dommaraju.
The article provides that “For Carlsen, this caps off a whirlwind week that started in New York, highlighted by his eighth World Blitz Championship title,” a victory that they are saying was “controversially” shared with Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi. CNN stories:
[Carlsen] had taken a 2-0 lead within the four-game contest earlier than Nepomniachtchi launched a surprising comeback to stage the scores, sending the match to a sudden loss of life tie-break. The pair then drew the subsequent three video games, and it was later decided that they might share the title after the proposal was accepted by Arkady Dvorkovich, the president of chess governing physique FIDE. “I believed, at that time, we had already performed for a really very long time and I used to be, to start with, very glad to finish it, and I believed, at that time, it could have been very, very merciless on each of us if one will get first and the opposite will get second,” Carlsen later instructed reporters….
[T]he determination to share the Blitz title with long-time rival Nepomniachtchi has sparked outcry from among the world’s high gamers — the primary time in historical past {that a} world championship title has been shared. “It is a state of affairs the place I can not stand with what Magnus has executed,” outstanding participant Hikaru Nakamura stated on his YouTube channel. “I don’t suppose that there’s any precedent for this, while you put out guidelines in regards to the recreation itself after which all of the sudden you determine, ‘It is okay, we’ll go house’ … It is unconscionable to me….”
“FIDE goes from forfeiting Carlsen (over the denims debacle) to creating a completely new rule,” Hans Niemann, whom Carlsen had defeated within the quarterfinals, wrote on X, previously often called Twitter. “Looks as if the the regulatory physique of chess has no intention of being unbiased. They appear to solely care about what one participant thinks….” Former world champion Garry Kasparov made a pointed reference to the denims controversy, writing on X: “I believed the primary FIDE tiebreak was pants.”
Magnus apparently tells his opponent “In the event that they like refuse, we are able to simply play brief attracts till they offer up,” in accordance with a behind-the-scenes video clip posted to X.com. The CEO of FIDE, Emil Sutovsky, re-posted it on X.com, complaining that FIDE president Dvorkovich’s determination to simply accept the gamers’ proposed draw was made “below the spur of a second, and naturally, the video appeared a lot later. I do suppose it’s VERY BAD although…”
FIDE later instructed CNN that “This case has already prompted helpful discussions inside FIDE administration to enhance our rules.” (And their article provides that some — together with grandmaster Ivan Sokolov — urged ties be settled with a brand new chess format often called Armageddon.) “In Armageddon, White has extra time however a draw on the board counts as a win for Black,” explains the Guardian — including that again in 1983, “Fide decided the winner of a Candidates match by a roulette wheel.”
The Guardian provides that Russian-born FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich “most likely felt he had little alternative however to rubber stamp the settlement by the gamers.”
He would have been pilloried in Moscow as stopping a Russian world champion had he dominated in any other case, and a destructive may even have provoked a sequence of the infamous Berlin attracts, the usual technique for a fast mutually agreed half level. Nevertheless, that plan of action would have introduced the gamers into disrepute, and it’s extra possible that an impressed recreation or a blunder would have settled the ultimate. The viewers on Wall Avenue applauded the choice, however the appreciable on-line response from skilled gamers and followers has been largely essential.
It was the primary ever shared over-the-board particular person world title in chess historical past.
