Magnus Carlsen Wins the Freestyle (Chess960) World Championship

https://www.fide.com/magnus-carlsen-wins-2026-fide-freestyle-world-championship/

85•prophylaxis•2h ago

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cadamsdotcom•1h ago

Wow. If make.com can afford to sponsor a chess tournament .. their users are overpaying.

eterm•1h ago

You might be surprised how little money there is in chess.

HardwareLust•1h ago

Total purse was $300k, Magnus got $100k of that for winning.

295fge•55m ago

Which confirms the point, right?

HardwareLust•53m ago

100%.

bmacho•44m ago

It's not chess but a variant. Maybe it has ~10-100 times less viewer base.

thatswrong0•36m ago

I wish it was more popular - it’s more enjoyable to watch and play since it’s not nearly as much prep / memorization

koakuma-chan•1h ago

1Password is sponsoring auto racing xD

HardwareLust•1h ago

Fabi a bridesmaid again. The curse of being born in Magnus' generation.

gyudin•1h ago

The curse of being born in Smartphones’ generation :3

saucymew•1h ago

It feels like the cohort GM player pool is mentally cooked against Magnus.

Youngsters like Lazavik during the Speed Chess Championship or Sindarov in Freestyle were the most recent convincing wins against Magnus, but the historical mental edge that Magnus comes into each game after beating the brakes out of everyone is hard to overcome.

Magnus' time will come! But not today.

make3•31m ago

or maybe he's just very good?

system2•22m ago

Brain ages. He will eventually decline just like any human being. Let's hope by then he will have the wisdom to smile when that happens.

make3•9m ago

Ageism also just one of these shitty unproven biases, like sexism, which is self-realizing by applying pressure to people who fall out of the mold even slightly.

He's 30 something, not 90.

FreakLegion•19m ago

Are you referring to the odd individual game? Magnus beat Lazavik pretty badly in the SCC and knocked Sindarov out of the Freestyle final.

haunter•59m ago

Here are the replays https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-freestyle-chess-world-cha...

smnplk•38m ago

I think Nakamura didnt play this time because of his Candidates prep. Otherwise I think Nakamura would have a slight edge on Carlsen in this game.

throwpoaster•29m ago

Do the engines have a similar edge in Fischer Random and regular chess?

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