In 2013, Peruvian Jorge Cori was two minutes late to his game and was forfeited at the World Chess Cup. Cori has misheard the start time of 6:15 as 6:50 and forfeited round 1.
In 2012, Grandmaster Mamedyarov was forfeited his game at the European Chess Championship when he arrived at his board 10 seconds after the officially stated start time. Later, he and his opponent were forfeited for agreeing to a draw in 19 moves. Mamedyarov then immediately quit the tournament and left.
In January 1962, Lisa Lane forfeited her games from a tournament in Hastings, saying she was homesick and in love and could not concentrate.
In 1961, Bobby Fischer forfeited Game 12 against Sammy Reshevsky over a scheduling conflict. Fischer then withdrew from the match and resigned in protest.
There have actually been many other forfeits but usually under a protest of some kind.
Look up Bobby Fischer before he quit playing chess.
I personally hope that Carlsen has a better excuse than Ms. Lane from above.
(Or maybe it will be the same excuse ... ?)
Fischer also forfeited the second game of his world championship match against Boris Spassky because he objected to the movie cameras set up in the hall.
“Cori has misheard the start time of 6:15 as 6:50”
We get this a lot in the biz. We have casting calls, and some actors would come in with this excuse. Now we simply lock the door with security and we dont care if the studio president knocks on it.
He kinda got spanked yesterday.
I’m a big fan, and he is probably the greatest player of all time.
That said, he struggles with autism, and by his own admission, thinks of nothing every moment except chess. He must be under such intense pressure to perform, and increasingly, intense pressure to walk away.
It must be paradoxical in that he is so good at chess and it has been so good to him, but at the same time it is essentially a worthless pursuit.
The trouble is, he probably realizes this and must think about what else can he do with his life.
Is he being persecuted because he did not get the Vaccination!!
I’m outrages.😂
He’ll probably die tomorrow.😵
Talk amongst yourselves.
It seems like such an intense game.
To my knowledge, there was one hit pop song about chess and here it is:
The last non-woke sport.
Carlsen now has added sore loser and spoiled brat to his long list of accomplishments. If I was a chess tournament organizer, I wouldn’t invite him again, in spite of his #1 ranking.
for those not familiar with chess..
Magnus is implying that his opponent
was somehow getting outside help
Former National Expert.
With the rise of computers, tried to get opponents out of book as quickly as possible.
This is an outrage!