05-15-2020, 10:14 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/m...bers-surge
Magnus Carlsen has announced a new $1m series of major online events in which he will compete, lasting all summer with a final in August. The Carlsen Tour effectively replaces the over-the-board Grand Tour organised from St Louis in the US, which was halted by coronavirus. The Carlsen series could even open up the possibility, if coronavirus continues for a long time, of moving the world championship match itself to an internet setting.
The first Carlsen Tour event has already happened. The Carlsen Invitational, where the No 1 defeated the US champion, Hikaru Nakamura, in a tense final, was watched by an online audience calculated at 114,000.
The next tournament, from 19 May to 3 June, is the Lindores Abbey Challenge, a version of the over-the-board rapidplay in Scotland last summer. Carlsen’s opponents will include Nakamura, China’s world No 3, Ding Liren, and the prodigy Alireza Firouzja.
Well, Magnus Carlsen has been the World Champion continuously from 2013 onwards, and he's held the World No. 1 ranking continuously from mid-2011 onwards - so, anybody going up against him has a daunting challenge!
Still, I'm curious to see whether anybody will be able to knock him off his throne .
Magnus Carlsen has announced a new $1m series of major online events in which he will compete, lasting all summer with a final in August. The Carlsen Tour effectively replaces the over-the-board Grand Tour organised from St Louis in the US, which was halted by coronavirus. The Carlsen series could even open up the possibility, if coronavirus continues for a long time, of moving the world championship match itself to an internet setting.
The first Carlsen Tour event has already happened. The Carlsen Invitational, where the No 1 defeated the US champion, Hikaru Nakamura, in a tense final, was watched by an online audience calculated at 114,000.
The next tournament, from 19 May to 3 June, is the Lindores Abbey Challenge, a version of the over-the-board rapidplay in Scotland last summer. Carlsen’s opponents will include Nakamura, China’s world No 3, Ding Liren, and the prodigy Alireza Firouzja.
Well, Magnus Carlsen has been the World Champion continuously from 2013 onwards, and he's held the World No. 1 ranking continuously from mid-2011 onwards - so, anybody going up against him has a daunting challenge!
Still, I'm curious to see whether anybody will be able to knock him off his throne .
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