World champion in chess withdraws, that's why

Speaking on the International Chess Day, five times the world champion said his experience had been “an interesting trip”, but in the end he is not motivated to play another “The exhausting three-week campaign”.

I just feel that I don't have much to gain”, Carlsen said. I don't like it, although I'm sure a match would be interesting for historical reasons. I don't tend to play any more, and I just won't play the game”.

Carlsen, who has dominated the game for more than a decade, has had a long love/hate relationship with the World Chess Championship and yet his decision will shake the chess world, writes Telegraph.

Since becoming world champion in 2013, Carlsen has been an encouragement to millions to start playing chess.

His decision has left the top chess manager with “ ”.

Outside the chess, Carlsen spent time being a model for the Dutch fashion company G-Star Raw and has also launched a successful business empire, establishing the Play Magnus group in 2013, which offers online apps and platforms designed to learn chess to encourage people to play the game.

Carlsen is also a fiery football fan. He grabbed headlines in the media in 2019, when he led the game “Premier League Fantasy” among seven million people.

Named <x0). Carlsen's victory was seen by Garry Kasparov and others as the beginning of a new era in chess, which as 22 years old at the time, was the first new champion to have played his game in the era of super-strong chess computers.