Btw, I think you are mistaken about Levon Aronian. See recent tragedy with his wife. Occurred in Armenia. He might be living in Berlin part time as its closer to all the action.
> I doubt that Carlsen was referred to as "Norwegian teen"
Which he was, apparently at least 292 times
I’m more annoyed by the headline’s implication that Carlsen would find this defeat shocking. He wouldn’t. Magnus and Alireza have been acquainted for a few years now. They’ve played many times. Carlsen is fully aware of how strong his opponent is.
Now obviously this wasn't a fully serious match format, but then again Carlsen prides himself on his dominance under short time controls.
after all, it was in rapid playoffs that he defended his world champion crown against both Karjakin and Caruana. It was only once it came to that when he would simply blow them out of the water.
> Before the clash, the world no.1 player didn't underestimate Firouzja, calling him "by far my biggest challenge."
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/norwegian-teen-top...
They could and should have named the “Iranian teen” in the headline instead of glorifying Magnus as some unbeatable chess god. Not to mention that in the actual article itself the hero image is of Magnus holding a trophy. For an article about how he lost.
Get with it.
The fact that "a teen" has beaten the undisputed world champion and number one chess player in the world for the last 10 years at anything involving chess is very surprising and called out in the title (also a lot more click-baity).
Believe me, if and when Firouzja achieves Magnus status and if he then gets beaten by a teen unknown to general audiences we will see a similar headline with Iranian replaced by the teen's country of origin and "Magnus Carlsen" replaced with "Alireza Firouzja".
As for not using his name, try and write the headline both mentioning his name, and his age. It's just clunky.
It's CNN, not ChessBase. They have no reason to assume any chess-related who-is-who knowledge on the reader's part.
It's all trash. The headline is insulting to Magnus. It's insulting to Firouzja. It's insulting to the readers.
The younger someone doing something noteworthy is, the more the press (at least in North America) will headline their age.
Here's Orson Welles at age 10: https://twitter.com/JFrankensteiner/status/11919269504508805...
Not entirely true, but that he had to leave Iran to pursue his chess career is interesting.
p.s: As always: responses > downvotes.