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What is behind Magnus Karlsen's refusal to defend his world of the World Chess Champion

Magnus Karlsen refused to be the world champion. In this news, she is not surprising herself, but how calmly and routine everything happened.

The world champion talked with the representatives of FIDE, talked with the winner of the applicants' tournament, did not offend anyone, did not quarrel with anyone, did not particularly demand anything, although he offered something-and quietly stepped aside, letting the nepomic and Liezhena: “Well, do you need this title? You play. "

In this event, only for a day or even for only a few hours the press and overfed information of the public, everything that happens today with chess is expressed.

Whether it was before! For the title of world champion, for the world crown, for the right to put on the neck a huge wreath of bay leaves was not even a struggle, but a real fight, psychological robilovo and mental stump. And so it has been long ago. Alekhin forced Kapablank to the match with himself, and he in response published the London Protocol of 22 articles with the terms of the match and demanded that all the applicants sign it. Fisher, like Titan, entered into a fight with humanity united against him - and lost this struggle, and left the chess to the crazy ones unknown to us. Karpov and Kasparov, freely or involuntarily, personified stagnation and change, nomenclature and democracy - and exhausted each other in a multi -month struggle. And he was still a kortic, who heroically fought in Bagios with the Soviet chess machine.

What persons, what people, what matches, what victories, what disasters! Alekhin suffered from a sudden toothache during a match with a capablanca, six teeth were removed, but he continued to play and won. Fisher, as if with a bat in his hands, walked through the world chess, knockeding down one grandmaster after another with a score of 6: 0, and during the match with Spasski after the parties, when Spassky went to analyze and prepare, Ruikyavik went to the court and carefully played tennis. What tragic figures are an emigrant Alekhin, who was sitting behind the board in the feeding and still defeating, and the homeless Fisher, persecuted around the world, shifted by the theories of conspiracies and mania.

How far from these huge human figures the current grandmasters. Those were people whose chess game was full of ideas and human motives,

The current techno with a restrained memory, well remembering the first twenty moves at any beginning. But this is not enough so that the radiance and tension of art arise over 64 cells of black and white.

David Bronstein is another tragic monastery of the chess world, the son of a repressed “enemy of the people”, a player of such depth that it even interfered with him, because he saw in a position that no one saw, and fought with what others did not suspect, he considered chess high art. And where is it, is this art?

Magnus Karlsen has an outstanding technique of the game, but is he the creator of art, does he create new dimensions and spaces? It is unlikely - and is it possible in the age when chess is calculated through with computer processors?

Previously, wanting to give a high appreciation, they said: "Played in the style of morph." Now they say: "Played in the style of a computer." Playing Morphi meant creative take -off, unthinkable combination grace and that harmony without which there is no art. Playing in the style of a computer means sterile accuracy of the calculation. Yes, they play strongly, very strongly, simply incredibly strong, but behind this game is not a free human genius with ups and errors, but something like a mathematics of chess, the highest mathematics of the game.

Chess became a victim of a computer. Powerful computers took the game for themselves, calculated it for thirty moves ahead, supplied each position with a digital assessment, gave an unmistakable analysis. Previously, the grandmaster exhausted by the party went to sleep for an hour or two (but he could not fall asleep, the brain did not turn off, continued to count the options), while in the hotel room in the clubs of cigarette smoke, his team analyzed the delayed position, looking for the only move leading to salvation or to victory. Now it’s enough to turn on the computer. And turn on.

From the dramatic collision of the great players, chess became a parody story about the little liars who run to the toilet during the party to consult a computer there.

They do not believe in a word. Therefore, during the Online Party, the grandmaster is obliged to hung himself with video cameras to prove that he does not spy anywhere and does not use anything. Soon they will be forced to undress in front of the party for a search to prove that the chip with the Stockfish program is not sewn in the hand or leg, which passes the moves directly into the brain through the nervous system.

During the second match with Spasski, Fisher spat on a letter from the State Department, in which he was informed that he was violating the embargo imposed on Yugoslavia. What would he do with the computer? There is every reason to assume that he would have thrown him out the window, like a diabolical thing that takes away the will of free will from the player.

In the calm, with which Magnus Karlsen refused the title of world champion - the devaluation of the title. Previously, the world chess champions - Kapablanka, Alekhin, Botvinnik, Tal, Petrosyan, Spassky, Fisher - were figures from the myth and romantic heroes, introduced to the secrets of being, encrypted in parties. Now these are just professionals with high games of the game who have mastered the computer.