Actually no, we all know Magnus Carlsen is the best current player. Because he has the highest Fide ELO. Its obvious that if he would still participate in the competition, he would most likely still be world champion. Except if he would have had really a lot of bad luck.
About his motives I can only speculate.
Because he finds it tiresome and not fun to prepare and play the World Championship. It is months of work. And he think quicker time controls are more fun OR chess960 with classical timecontrol. Basically he don't want to fight lines wich his opponent has spent months with a superengine to prepare and draw him. He want to have fun playing chess.
Oh, to have Magnus' problems
Actually no, we all know Magnus Carlsen is the best current player. Because he has the highest Fide ELO...
Do we really know that? Didn't Magnus lose quite a lot of Elo in the last year or so in classical? A few shock defeats followed by accusations - Hans, that guy with the watch...
Who's really been the best player over the past couple of years? If he'd made the championship match, Caruana would have been a good bet for the current best player. Otherwise, who's gained the most Elo and closed in at the top?
I guess Stern2311 is not Magnus. Recently closed due to fair play violation. In my opinion if one shows on any of these leader boards with no FIDE title they are cheating.
@taz_4_ever my goal is to show up on the leader board without a title I don't cheat
I mean I would understand if he did maybe he wants to start thinking about doing other stuff besides chess and maybe start thinking about having a family since he’s getting to that age anyways.
Chess.com is making me quit chess because they banned my account for no reason!
Cool did you cheat or was it for abuse?
Magnus aint quitting chess, that's a crazy hoax.
Magnus Carlsen is on another level.
Magnus Carlsen is on another level.
Sure. There is a level of "active players", a level of "retired players", and Magnus Carlsen is on another level.
Well he is kind of old for chess now.
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He's not retiring. He just isn't going to play competitive anymore.