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whats causing carlsen to lose to these much weaker players

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fabelhaft
Aug 12, 2014
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#21

"maybe he can't handle the pressure of being the world champion"

You have been writing that during every tournament Carlsen has won since winning the title, as well as the one where he finished second :-)

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trotters64
Aug 12, 2014
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#22
fabelhaft wrote:

"maybe he can't handle the pressure of being the world champion"

 

You have been writing that during every tournament Carlsen has won since winning the title, as well as the one where he finished second :-)

Well it takes a while for the pressure to build up to intolerable levels ... maybe he will completely crack up and collapse against Vishy.. but maybe he won't crack this year ..time will tell us more.

What we do know is that Magnus had a shockingly bad game and result against a player rated over 200 pts below Magnus ! He had better sharpen up his act pronto.:-)

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FM nobodyreally
Aug 12, 2014
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#23
pfren wrote:

In Tromso Carlsen has the opportunity to play provocative chess, just for fun- and this is exactly what he is doing.

He has lost two games -today he lost against Saric, after playing an extremely dubious opening (to pout it mildly), but why should he care? He can get the lost rating points back easily- while in the "serious" tournaments he's participating he has no chances for provocative chess.

For him, the Olympiad is a great chance to play nonsense, and see if he can win, after all.

Could be. But I watched today, and to me he looked pretty tired. And then tonight  I saw on Trent's twitter that they were out boozing hard last night.

"Battered. Blame entirely, it all went downhill after those shots..."

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chessmaster54458
Aug 12, 2014
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#24
Fiveofswords wrote:

well the obvious explanation is that they arent so much weaker. People are actually very very close in skill near the top. If you are a more famous player and only play against high rated opponents in invite only tourneys that can inflate your rating. I never understood the hype about carlsen personally. Sure hes good. But i dont see him being in a different league than all the other super gms.

is this true

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varelse1
Aug 12, 2014
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#25

Carlsen is slowing down in his old age!

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Returnofcookiemonster
Aug 12, 2014
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#26

He needs a break. No pun intended.

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Time4Tea
Aug 12, 2014
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#27

Well, I just read that apparently the Noweigan PM made the first move today for him, so that probably explains it.  (She really shouldn't have played 1..f6.)

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MervynS
Aug 12, 2014
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#28

I am seeing that Carlsen isn't the only top player that is losing games to lower rated players, there are enough active GMs such that the top players can't prepare something accurate against all of them at the same time.

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Debistro
Aug 12, 2014
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#29

Carlsen is VERY clearly out of shape in this Olympiad. Drew with a 2500 Finnish GM at the starting. Should have lost to Caruana and Dragan. What Naiditsch said was correct. He is lucky most of the time...

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MISTERGQ
Aug 12, 2014
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#30

I think the press around him constantly videoing and taking pictures are distracting him. He's in his home country, so he's probably getting more celebrity harassment than he's used to.

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Superqueen500
Aug 12, 2014
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#31
Petrosianic wrote:

when u experiment with unusual and dubious positions sometimes u get burned. 2680 players are pretty good too.

Carlsen has just been overconfident playing retarded moves in the opening. He got lucky to win using the shitty patzer scandinavian against Fabiano....

 This is a wake up call to Carlsen. He has to play everyone seriously because he isn't that much better than them.