Athletistic/Chess. Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi, who won the Candidates Tournament, commented on the words of 16th world champion Magnus Carlsen, who said he would only agree to play a match for the chess crown if the player 19-year-old French chess player Alireza Firouzja becomes the winner of the Candidates Tournament.

Firuja took sixth place in the Candidates Tournament, only Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Hungary’s Richard Rapport did worse. Firuji has 2 wins over Caruana and Rapport, 4 losses (from Nakamura, Caruana, two from Nepomniachtchi), 8 games ended in a draw. Nepomniachtchi has 5 wins and 9 draws, Firouzja is the only chess player he has beaten twice.

“At the moment, I have the same contribution as everyone else. Let’s just say that when it happened in December, I thought it was more like a classic promotion story.

To throw? Not at all. We know, for example, the stars of boxing, MMA. In the style of these sports – to force yourself to persuade you to stay, to drill the best conditions for the next fights and so on. But then Magnus clarified his position in a bit more detail. Maybe he is not happy with the format, although in my opinion, if it is changed, it should be done at the beginning of the cycle and everything should be reviewed comprehensively,” Nepomniachtchi told the service. release of the Russian Chess Federation (RCF).

World champion Karpov agreed with Karjakin’s comments on the decline of Russian chess