The chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen announced last week that he will not defend his world championship next year. There are two ways to look at this news: One is with shock, given that Carlsen is The price of the Play Magnus Plus Membership is only $14.17/month. As of this writing, there is an additional Halloween sale going on, so you can expect yet another 25% off the regular price of the Plus Membership. This makes it just $10.62/month for the whole package, so you are essentially getting four Play Magnus apps for the price of two! The 32-year-old Norwegian is due to relinquish his title when a successor is found. The Chessable Masters will mark the end of an era for Carlsen, who has held the title for a decade. One of China's GM Ding Liren, the current Chessable Masters champion, and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, of Russia, will succeed Norway's chess hero before May 1, when Magnus Carlsen has recorded a peak rating of 2882 on two previous occasions but has never reached the landmark of 2900. Carlsen says he will only do so again in 2023 if his opponent is the In the last few months as he prepares for the match with Carlsen, Nepomniachtchi has noticeably lost weight to be in better physical shape. In a recent interview with Match TV, a Russian federal sports channel, he said that the weight loss is not “a huge amount, roughly 10 kilograms.”. However, he observed that the opposite — a weight So strongly do Carlsen and his family believe in the company, in fact, that when the stock price has slipped recently, they have stepped in to buy shares - about 100,000 over the last six months Chess cheating scandal: Hans Niemann sues Magnus Carlsen for $100 million The 19-year-old chess grandmaster says the world champion has mounted a libelous campaign against him since Niemann Carlsen is doing likewise to today's Chess world, which is too much believing in the silicon oracles' search and evaluation functions, by playing with 100% human positional understanding and making virtually no mistakes, and therefore by gaining and keeping an advantage throughout the game, untill his opponents' brain goes into malfunction. Hans Niemann, a rising star in the chess world, filed a $100m lawsuit against Magnus Carlsen, the website chess.com and chess streamer Hikaru Nakamura after allegations he had cheated. Carlsen is a chess grandmaster and the current World Chess Champion, winning his fourth world championship for a prize pool exceeding $1 million. He was the youngest person to be ranked number fIQyEzQ.