Magnus Carlsen (25) believe that it was a mistake of his World Cup opponent Sergey Karjakin (26) to say yes to play Norway Chess.
Meanwhile, fear not world champion Russian challenger, whom he will meet in New York in November.
– But I’m not afraid to face him. I feel that I have a psychological advantage in our mutual settlement, Carlsen says to VG under a sponsorship arrangement with Therese Johaug, Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Casper Ruud.
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– Is Karjakin the best you could meet in the World Cup match?
– No, I had been more afraid Fabiano Caruana. Or Levon Aronian.
It has attracted much attention that Sergey Karjakin has dropped out of Norway Chess last minute. The rationale is that he must prepare for title fight against Carlsen about seven months. Experts have told VG that the Russian probably afraid of a bad result against Carlsen in their last long chess meeting before the World Cup.
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– It is possible to see many reasons why he resigned from Norway Chess. I think the mistake he made was to say yes to a tournament so soon after contender tournament.
– After I even played contender tournament in 2013 and after the matches mine in 2013 and 2014, I had offered playing tournaments right afterwards. Sometimes you have the energy to play, perhaps you so positive emotions of a positive result that you can surf on.
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– But other times you completely run. And I would guess that Karjakin is run now and that he therefore did not want to play tournament. But he should have thought of before. But it will be a lesson to him, says Carlsen, who was completely exhausted after he had won the contender tournament in 2013 on “photo finish”.
Magnus Carlsen have great respect for Sergey Karjakin as opponent, although he thus believe that others could have been worse.
– It was primarily very impressive what he did in Moscow , the candidate tournament.
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– He made good decisions in key stages and had the strongest nerves there.
– Sports Minister and chess president of Russia has promised that Karjakin will get all the help he wants. Comment on it?
– Yes, it is positive that chess hopefully getting some attention in Russia again.
– Do this in memory of the 1972 match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky?
– no, I do not know … I have not thought anything of it, but I think it’s fun to meet Karjakin in that I’ve known him for so long. We have been competitors since we were 12-13 years old, so it’s great to to meet him.
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