Magnus Carlsen on Arjun Erigaisi’s troubles: ‘Becomes little bit mental.. but shouldn’t read too much into it’

However, satellite nary 1 Magnus Carlsen believes that Arjun Erigaisi’s slump is not excessively worrying astatine the moment.

“I’m not definite we should work each that overmuch into it (Erigaisi’s results),” Magnus Carlsen said connected Chess.com commentary during Round 6. “We’ve seen Caruana earlier the Candidates having a nightmare of a tourney and past winning the event. So I’m not definite if we request to work each that overmuch into it. I conjecture it becomes a small spot of a intelligence (issue) astatine immoderate constituent if you’re struggling astatine the precise aforesaid tourney that you were struggling astatine before.”

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Magnus Carlsen was referring to Arjun Erigaisi’s struggles astatine the Tata Steel masters lawsuit successful 2023, wherever helium had not won a azygous crippled the full edition.

Magnus Carlsen added: “I deliberation a batch of things person conscionable gone incorrect astatine the aforesaid clip (for Arjun Erigaisi). I’ve heard from different radical that if you bash poorly astatine Tata Steel, past it tin beryllium a precise agelong tournament.”

Arjun Erigaisi takes connected Magnus Carlsen during their lucifer astatine the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz astatine the Dhono Dhanyo Auditorium astatine Kolkata. (Express photograph by Partha Paul.)

Analysing Erigaisi’s 3 defeats truthful far, Magnus Carlsen pointed retired that successful the clash against Vladimir Fedoseev, Arjun Erigaisi had taken “a batch of chances successful the opening” to outplay his hostile and get a winning position. “He benignant of does everything correctly, past helium makes a small spot of a random blunder.”

Magnus Carlsen added: “The nonaccomplishment to Harikrishna was harder to explain. He was taking chances… astir similar helium was playing for a triumph portion creating risks lone for himself. He went for a enactment wherever I had nary thought what his thought was, too not wanting to instrumentality a draw. That crippled was a unusual one.”

Magnus Carlsen said that Arjun Erigaisi was simply “outplayed” by R Praggnanandhaa successful the different crippled wherever helium had experienced defeat.