American grandmaster Hans Niemann has taken a sly dig on Magnus Carlsen, who on Friday pulled out of the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz tournament on Friday night after he was fined by the global governing body of the sport for wearing jeans.
“This is just sort of a power play, right?,” Niemann said on Youtube channel “Take Take Take.”
“This is, you know, it’s a bit weird that people think that this is about jeans. This is a, you know… How do I word this? Let’s just say that I think that Magnus was very happy that he was kicked out of the tournament, because now he has the perfect excuse to completely challenge FIDE in a way he’s wanted to do for a very long time.
“And with his, obviously, financial, you know, when it comes to the freestyle chess tour, which I was invited to, I guess because they had to by rating, and honestly, Jan Buettner, I have nothing negative to say about him. I even met him. Great things to say. I have nothing against the tour.
“I’m playing in a qualifier. But, you know, the reason why he’s doing this is just to discredit FIDE, so that his tour can be labelled as the official world championship, and they just raised 12 million dollars, right?
“It’s a big sort of investment, and how can you… I presume Magnus might be a shareholder in the company, just like he might be as a shareholder in Chess.com. Well, there was a merger, so I would, you know, I’ve gone on a bit, but this, in my opinion, was a coordinated and planned thing. It’s not some random thing that happened.
“And this is the perfect way for them to discredit FIDE, and once they discredit FIDE, then they can call whatever they want their world championship, right? Because there’s this sort of battle.
“In the entire world of chess, you have all these people who are vying for the stupid name of the world championship. Like, you saw Chess.com announce their global championship, which was first called the world championship, and then I guess that was a test to see how FIDE would react, and then they change it to global, probably because of legal threats.
“But no, I feel like they’ve successfully sort of done a… They’ve won some… It’s a PR battle, and now there’s a… He has the complete, let’s say, protection to secede from FIDE, because there’s a jeans headline, which is, I guess, confusing people about what’s really happening.”
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