Impressed with the teen sensation's win over world No.3 Fabiano Caruana here on Monday, the former world champion Kasparov took to Twitter, formerly X, to laud the 18-year-old's feats and his mother's efforts. "Congrats to @rpragchess — and to his mother. As someone whose proud mama accompanied me to every event, it's a special kind of support! World no.1 Magnus Carlsen opted out of competing to be world champion, with no.2 Ian Nepomniachtchi and no.3 Ding Liren facing off instead. Carlsen, who won the world chess championships five The overall score in the €2m ($2.26m) showdown between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi is 6½-3½ to Carlsen after the Norwegian’s breakthrough wins in Game 6, Game 8 and Game 9. Carlsen, the 32-year-old Norwegian grandmaster, renounced his chess throne last year when he said that he wouldn’t play in the world championship, which he won five consecutive times. Praggnanandhaa’s idols are World Chess Champions Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen. He has said that he looks up to Kasparov for his “fighting spirit” and Carlsen for his “calmness.” Praggnanandhaa has said he has “a lot of respect” for Indian chess grandmaster Vishwanathan Anand. Kasparov vs. Carlsen. When Kasparov ended his competitive chess career in March 2005, he was still the top-rated player in the world, as he had been for a whopping 20 years. His retirement was followed by a five-year period of GMs Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, and Veselin Topalov trading the number-one spot. That ended when Carlsen took TSNGB. Replacing Him Won’t Be Easy. The decision by the world’s best player to surrender his title means the game will have a new champion. But taking the crown is not the same as beating the man. 37 GM Magnus Carlsen won four games in the match and drew seven for a final match score of 7.5-3.5. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi played very strong chess in the first five games, which were all drawn. The sixth game of the match was the turning point—Carlsen won a historic 136-move game (the longest game in world championship history). Kasparov's rating gap was also smaller than that of Carlsen, Morphy (historic rating) or Fischer. It is on the other hand pretty self-evident that Kasparov's opposition was stronger than Fischer's. Carlsen, unlike Kasparov, was able to widen that rating gap further with an even stronger playing field. So he is probably the GOAT. Chess rating worldwide leaders. World Chess Federation's ranking stats, according to Elo rating system.Magnus Carlsen, Garry Kasparov, Bobby Fischer, Anato English‎. The FIDE World Chess Championship remains in a deadlock as challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi and World Champion GM Magnus Carlsen drew their third game on Sunday. Monday is the first rest day in Dubai; game four is scheduled for Tuesday, again, at 16:30 Dubai time (13:30 CET, 4:30 a.m. Pacific).

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