A model chess champion?
Posted: Sunday, Nov. 07, 2010
Magnus Carlsen is emerging as a spiffy dresser through no original design of his own. As the result of a considerable advertising campaign by G-Star, the Dutch clothing designer and producer, his fashionable representation is appearing in many European cities.
For example, the publisher ChessBase reports in a recent newsletter that an image of Carlsen adorns a bus stop opposite its Hamburg office.
He reminds us of a young Bobby Fischer, who segued from dungarees and sweatshirts to fine clothes. His suitcase and closets quickly overflowed with custom-tailored suits, shirts and shoes which he purchased in his chess travels.
Is this a breakthrough in establishing commercial viability for chess superstars?
Speculation that Carlsen’s recent results were affected by the distractions of his new role – a notion he denies – is being put to rest.
Source: http://www.charlotteobserver.com
Carlsen, the model chess champion … of what?
Carlsen’s ideas would eliminate the Chess World Champion Title and worst he is making me agree with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov!
Chess champ?! more a mischievous chimp. I’m sure a large part of the chess community is disappointed with him. We don’t care about his hairstyle or Harris Tweed jacket!
The format of championship is making so many controversions for years because is wrong. There were many manipulations in the fight for the title.
It has to be changed.
In table tennis, F1 there are democratic regulations.
We are having in chess monarchy but the world is democratic one.
Carlsen isn’t a champ, so how can he be a model one? His activities outside of chess is his business. If he wants to do modeling that’s fine. His clothes and hair style are not important to chess. During the promotion for the Magnus vs the World game I thought he looked really silly doing the boxing pose and hyping it up! I don’t think G Star is a good match up for a chess player. Maybe a sponsor deal with Intel or AMD would be better suited.
Magnus Carlsen is definitely what chess needs. Magnus Carlsen deserves it!
COWARD
I think, many readers are mistaking the word ‘model’ in the title!
Model in the title is about his modeling and ads! and not Model the adjective!
fist, did everyone miss the word play? then consider, the number one chess player is not the champion, forget the ridiculous FI
DE snapshot that serves for months to represent what changes daily and which the system is too broken to fix in a meaningful way. In what way is this not wrong? Why is the world’s number one player denied a title match? We just finished a series of matches no one cared about and we have one crying out to be played that would popularize chess world wide – capture the world’s imagination as nothing since Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in Iceland, and the present number one player has declined to undergo an antiquated selection process and will therefore remain the untitled champion until he loses his position to another who will become the number one player without a title.
Very sorry to see someone jumping in three minutes after this blog item was put up – to criticise Carlsen.
Makes me wonder who wrote it, and whether FIDE are encouraging criticism of Carlson through their sub-committee members.
Fischer at least went through the process as it was given him to challenge for the title. Once he became champion, he felt like he had a right to have some say in the format. Carlsen has achieved nothing, other than to show he is a good tournament player, like Topalov. I guess he doubts his ability in matches. He’s afraid of Kramnik and Anand. I don’t think his withdrawal from the candidates matches is a great loss for the chess world because his fear is probably justified. The best all-around tournament AND match player is the current champion.