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Magnus Carlsen is widely considered to be one of the very best chess players of all time, and it's more than respectable to consider him the Greatest of All Time. World Chess Championships are every two years. It's almost impossibly unlikely that someone like Carlsen (who is also very competitive) would deliberately prolong an event like this.



Carlsen is also temperamental and unorthodox. I really like that about him. He is also a good looking guy who gets girls fawning over him.

For him to answer the press in short Nos is funny.

For him to want to do more games with Fabiano and crush him in rapid is a great and FUN decision.

Obviously he could win that game but he wants to have more fun. And we all have more fun.

Instead of winning and going home he wants to do something new. It’s been a long match w unprecedented draws. Why end it now?

I would have done the same :)

Think about this... comparing it to taking a draw to win the tournament when you could win the game but risk losing - IS SILLY. THAT is cowardly.

Taking a draw when there would be nothing afterwards and you retain the title - that’s cowardly.

This... IS FUN!!




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