Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, the world’s No. 1-ranked participant, suffered a significant defeat on Sunday to present world champion Gukesh Dommaraju.
After Dommaraju made his ultimate transfer, Carlsen, 34, was seen slamming his fist onto the desk and standing up out of his seat in frustration earlier than shaking palms with the 19-year-old grandmaster from India. The video of Carlsen’s loss within the traditional chess match at spherical six of Norway Chess, an annual worldwide chess match, rapidly unfold on social and sparked a debate about sportsmanship on-line.
It was a surprising loss for Carlsen and a “fortunate day” for Dommaraju, the youthful chess grandmaster advised a reporter with Norwegian broadcaster TV2.
The match was stay streamed on Twitch by way of Chess.com, the world’s largest chess web site. Regardless of the defeat, Carlsen was nonetheless within the lead on the match.
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Magnus Carlsen’s rating
Carlsen turned the world’s top-ranked participant in 2010 at 19 and has received 5 World Championships. He achieved the highest-ever chess score of 2882 in 2014 and has remained the undisputed world No. 1 for greater than a decade, the Related Press reported.
Earlier this 12 months, Carlsen made historical past after greater than 143,000 folks worldwide performed towards him in a single, record-setting recreation. Billed as “Magnus Carlsen vs. The World,” the web match started April 4 on Chess.com and was the first-ever on-line freestyle recreation to characteristic a world champion.
Who’s the present chess world champion?
Dommaraju turned the youngest world champion final 12 months at simply 18 years outdated following a ultimate win over China’s Ding Liren on the Worldwide Chess Federation (FIDE) 2024 World Championship.
He surpassed a file held by Russia’s Garry Kasparov, who received the title at age 22, after clinching a dramatic endgame in Singapore to be topped champion. Dommaraju additionally turned the second Indian, after five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand, to carry the title.
Following his victory towards Carlsen over the weekend, Dommaraju advised TV2 that he was nonetheless shaking after the sport.
“I do not know what occurred,” he mentioned.
Dommaraju is ranked No. 5 on this planet, in keeping with Chess.com
How chess participant rankings work
There are two foremost programs for chess rating: the Elo System and the Glicko System. In accordance with Chess.com, which makes use of the latter technique, the rating “represents your power of play” and is calculated utilizing statistics.
Within the Elo System utilized by FIDE, the possibility of 1 participant defeating one other is calculated in a proportion.
For instance, participant A has a 60% likelihood of defeating participant B. If participant B wins six out of 10 video games, participant B’s rating would keep the identical. If participant B received seven or extra video games, participant B’s rating would go up. If participant B wins 5 or fewer video games, participant B’s rating would go down.
The Glicko System is extra sophisticated and constructed on the Elo System, utilizing a extra sophisticated system, Chess.com mentioned.
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