Magnus Carlsen gets mic'ed up earlier the archetypal crippled connected Friday astatine the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour lawsuit successful Weissenhaus. (Screenshot: YouTube/Chess24)
Magnus Carlsen has made it wide that helium won’t beryllium playing successful the FIDE events anymore and volition beryllium absorption much connected his task Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour.
After spending the past 2 months battling against the satellite governing assemblage of chess, FIDE, Carlsen’s remark is not surprising.
However, the Carsen has insisted that helium is not trying to instrumentality down classical chess with his Freestyle chess project.
The feud betwixt the erstwhile World Champion and FIDE started aft the motorboat of the 2025 Freestyle Chess Grandslam.
“FIDE has really ‘backed out.’ What I tin accidental present is that the narration that my squad and I person with FIDE is beauteous destroyed. At slightest with the existent administration,” Magnus Carlsen told Norwegian TV web TV2.
“What I tin accidental present is that the narration that my squad and I person with FIDE is beauteous destroyed. At slightest with the existent administration.”
Magnus Carlsen said that for present helium won’t beryllium participating successful the World Rapid & Blitz Championships, scheduled for Doha, Qatar, successful December. If helium pulls retired from the lawsuit past it volition beryllium the archetypal clip since 2013 that the lawsuit volition instrumentality spot without Magnus Carlsen.
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“As it is now, it’s wholly retired of the question,” helium added.
Talking astir the bitter conflict betwixt FIDE and Freestyle Chess, Carlsen told ChessBase India: “Generally unfortunate what has happened. Happy to absorption present connected the tournament. Things could person been resolved astatine an earlier point. Right present it is precise hard to person a narration with immoderate of the FIDE leadership. Speaking for myself and my father.”
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