The Downfall Of GM Sergey Karjakin (What Happened?!)
This short blog will be about the downfall of Sergey Karjakin, a taking a step into what happened. As I'm sure you probably know Sergey Karjakin is a Russian chess grandmaster that over the past few months has been making controversial comments and tweets that really are just flat-out crazy, disciple, and mean. He is in support of Vladimir Putin and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but let's go to the start and find out what happened. Karjakin was a booming chess prodigy before he even turned 10, and became the youngest Grandmaster at the time one of his most famous achievements. Now let's go ahead about ten years, Karjakin becomes a top 10 chess player by rating and starts winning in the big leagues. Karjakin won the World Rapid Chess Championship in 2012, and the won back to back Norway Chess Championships in 2013 and 2014, and then he won the World cup in 2015. His world cup performances are the best of any modern grandmaster and pretty impressive. He won the 2016 chess championship and almost beat Magnus Carlsen in 2016. He was three draws away. Now so far everything seems to be going great, so where did it go wrong? Let's call 2015-2016 the peak of his career or the top of mountain. But everything that comes must come down. The question is do you fall straight down, or do you go walk so gradually that no one seems to notice. The path where you fall is for people like Bobby Ficher, and the people that walk are like Vishy Anand who over the past ten years has fallen down in rating but not by much. Now it seemed like he was staying at the peak of his mountain until 2021. He made the candidates in 2018 and placed third. In the 2021 world cup which I think he was a complete beast in he placed second. But when does he fall straight down? When does his career get destroyed? The answer to that question seems easy: obviously when he started to support Vladimir Putin in his invasion of Russia. That isn't true though because the release of his insanity began at the 2022 Tata Steel. At this point in his career he probably feels like he isn't getting enough respect and attention which is true. So when Danil Dubov refuses to wear a mask, Sergey decides to start tweeting. He tweets out that he agrees with Dubov, later in that tournament he tweets #drawtomagnus#sayto2900, which just is weird honestly. It's not like Nigel Short would draw Garry Kasparov and go #sayto2850. So at this point I foresaw Karjakin doing other weird things like making absurd comments, tweeting out random conversations with taxi drivers about invading Ukraine and becoming the ultimate chess villian that everyone hates. So I have tracked down the downfall of Mr. Karjakin to January 2022. But was he always crazy or was he just angry about being under appreciated he decided to go insane? I think it might of been a mix of both, he cleary is crazy, but imagine you were out setting records and nobody cared for you or thought you were top ten. If he hadn't all out flipped no one would remember him. That still doesn't make a difference. He deserved what he got, and maybe even more. He went full Bobby Ficher, he sprinted down down that mountain. But let's be positive: as of now it is July 19th 2022: tomorrow is July 20th 2022, FIDE asked Magnus Carlsen to make the Decision of whether or not to play in the 2022 world championship. If he says know that means Ding Liren will play in world championship. I want Ding Liren (my second favorite Grandmaster) to win the 2022 world championship(sorry Ian), and Ding would never have done qualified for the candidates if Sergey hadn't been banned. So to end: Sergey your such a stupid idiot that's also a jerk, but you got Ding a candidates spot at least
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