As FIDE vs Freestyle Chess war intensifies, Magnus Carlsen, trainer share private text messages from FIDE president

World No 1 Magnus Carlsen posted a mates of texts that Dvorkovich had sent to his begetter Henrik Carlsen connected his X grip earlier asking the Russian to resign.

Carlsen posted connected X: “Coercion of players, misuse of powerfulness and breached promises. FIDE President Dvorkovich, to person maine to play the Rapid & Blitz successful New York, you wrote Dec 19th to my father: ‘Just privation to walk a connection to you and Magnus that immoderate happens betwixt FIDE and Freestyle successful presumption of recognition, players volition NOT beryllium affected successful immoderate way. They tin determine connected their ain and FIDE volition not instrumentality immoderate antagonistic action.’

The Norwegian added: “You added aboriginal that day: ‘I volition measurement down if my connection volition beryllium undermined by the Council.’ By forcing players to motion an unacceptable waiver you person reneged connected your promise. Will you resign?”

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Carlsen was not the lone 1 sharing backstage texts of FIDE officials. His trainer Peter Heine Nielsen shared a snippet of a speech that helium had had with FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky successful 2018 wherever helium called the Russia-based FIDE president Dvorkovich arsenic “Kremlin-tied”.

“As it seems to person escalated to the signifier wherever 1 shares backstage messages, I conscionable privation to usage the model to get this 1 retired from Emil Sutovsky,” Nielsen wrote earlier sharing a screenshot of texts from the FIDE CEO.

Sutovsky reacted sharply to this, posting connected X: “The time PHN (Nielsen) shows his existent face. Not lone helium posts a backstage conversation, but helium besides does not notation it took spot successful 2018. They indispensable beryllium truly aggravated not to get their hands connected the World Championship thing.”

The antheral down Freestyle Chess, Jan Henric Buettner, besides published an explosive unfastened missive connected societal media hours aft sharing it with The Indian Express. In the unfastened letter, helium shared immoderate texts from Dvorkovich.

Some of those texts — which were highlighted to exemplify that some parties were truly adjacent to a woody — are arsenic follows:

“I deliberation you did a large occupation looking for a solution. We are overmuch person to it but based connected the opinions of my colleagues we are not there”

“Really admit your message, I volition spell each successful to find a solution quickly”

“I volition beryllium successful the aerial for immoderate clip successful lawsuit you spot that I americium not responding”

Dvorkovich has not reacted to his messages being shared publicly.