Re:Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize
by pbhjpbhj on Sunday April 19, 2020 @12:39PM
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Carlsen losing is exceptionally good advertising, and makes him the center of more attention.
It reminds me of the tennis player John McEnroe, win or lose we remember him for his outbursts, he made a lot of advertising money because of that.
In short, Carlsen was probably beaten, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility that he was just winning at a different game (exposure or money).
Right now he's spending a lot of time promoting chess24 with banter blitz, hanging around on lichess playing 100 games bullet matches, commenting on chess24 and other things that would profoundly ruin anyone else's concentration.
So, no big deal if he very occasionally loses (online!) games.