Viswanathan Anand “Not Prepared For FIDE Job”: Magnus Carlsen’s Dig After ‘Denims’ Controversy

World primary Magnus Carlsen on Monday criticised senior FIDE officers, together with its deputy president Viswanathan Anand, for mishandling the gown code violation situation, calling them “not grown-ups” and stating that the Indian was “not prepared for the job.” A few days after being disqualified from the Fast occasion on the World Fast and Blitz Chess Championship for refusing to vary into formal trousers, Carlsen was confirmed for the Blitz occasion following FIDE’s resolution to permit gamers to compete in denims.

Describing the choice to disqualify him as “draconian,” the Norwegian referred to as the officers “robots” who should not able to making impartial choices.

“Properly, to start with, let’s return to a few days in the past. I did have some alternative phrases for FIDE in my interview with you. And I might say that it was a bit imprecise. I undoubtedly imply it on the subject of sure individuals in FIDE. No query about it,” the Norwegian advised ‘Take Take Take, an app he’s co-promoting.

“I believe the scenario was badly mishandled on their aspect. And I used to be about to principally e-book my airplane tickets and get out of right here. My father mentioned that we should always perhaps wait till the morning to decide to talk to the FIDE president, Arkady Dvorkovich, whom we now have a great relationship with.

“Him truly being asleep when this occurred meant there have been no grown-ups in FIDE. You possibly can argue whether or not I’m or not. However there was no one even barely keen to have a dialog.” The five-time world champion was fined USD 200 for carrying denims, which was “explicitly prohibited” beneath the unique match rules. The Norwegian was additionally disqualified by chief arbiter Alex Holowczak after he refused to vary his apparel forward of the ninth spherical.

“We had lengthy conversations with Anand yesterday and others, which typically did not lead anyplace. It was typically the identical solutions, that arbiters are principally robots who can’t assume on their very own, who don’t have any technique to even deviate barely from… I do not even know if I broke any guidelines. I nonetheless have not gotten a transparent reply on that,” mentioned Carlsen.

“They have been saying that denims have been typically not allowed. If it is typically not allowed, that should imply that there have to be exceptions. And if I, with a good try at an outfit other than that, did not meet that exception, I do not see what would, frankly,” he added.

Anand, himself a five-time world champion, had advised Chessbase India that Carlsen “merely refused to comply with the foundations, left us with little alternative.” “So I am not even positive I broke any guidelines. However in any case, they determined to take that chance to pursue a really slender interpretation of a rule. Apparently, there was no room for discussions or something,” Carlsen continued.

“Anand mentioned very clearly that he did not know that he had any alternative to do something previous, you already know, go together with the arbiters’ actually draconian resolution of not pairing me. And that implies that he was, for all his good qualities, not prepared for this job. That is what I really feel.”

Carlsen had opted out of the Blitz part after his disqualification however will now defend his title. FIDE boss Dvorkovich introduced the change in coverage, saying “I took the choice to trial an strategy to supply extra flexibility to FIDE officers in judgements relating to the suitability of the apparel.

“The precept is straightforward: it’s nonetheless required to comply with the official dress-code, however elegant minor deviations (which will, specifically, embrace applicable denims matching the jacket) are allowed,” Dvorkovich mentioned in an announcement on X.