Modest player maintains his focus
Saturday, December 12, 2009 3:24 AM
By SHELBY LYMAN
After raising his international rating to the highest in the world with performances in two elite tournaments, Magnus Carlsen, 19, added further aura to his status.
He pulverized the competition in the World Blitz tournament in Moscow and finished three points ahead of Viswanathan Anand.
Trailing in his wake were ex-world champions Vladimir Kramnik, Ruslan Ponomariov and Anatoly Karpov.
Carlsen’s feat recalled Bobby Fischer’s historic domination of the best players of his time in a 1970 blitz tournament in Yugoslavia. Fischer swept the tournament only half as long as the one in Moscow with a 17-4 score, 4.5 points ahead of the former world champion Mikhail Tal.
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Carlsen is much better than Fischer. Carlsen will break 2900.
Carlsen is much better than Fischer. Carlsen will break 2900.
We don’t know that just yet. You maybe right, but maybe wrong. When Carlsen will defeat his contemporary very bests 6-0 6-0 6.5-2.5 then win the World Championship with a 4 points margin (while throwing away a potential 5th point by not showing up), THEN we can declare Carlsen as good as Fischer used to be.
Carlsen certainly shows the promise and at age 19 he certainly has the time to catch up with Fischer, perhaps even eclipse him, but it hasn’t happened just yet.
Well said, Gabor.
Finally after a drought of 37 years we finally have a chess player who can fill Bobby Fischer’s shoes. These players only come around every 100 years or so and break the monotony of dull, uninspired chess dominated by the Soviets. I think Magnus Carslen will be the next Tiger Woods of golf but only doing it on the chess board.
how can you say carlsen better than fischer? fischer has the greatest winning percentage of 73% and that is out of all chespplayers, capablanca is close at 72% carlsen is only at 60.3% dont compare the new kids to the greats