Magnus Carlsen on Arjun Erigaisi’s recent troubles: ‘(Has) become little bit mental… but we shouldn’t read too much into it’

“I’m not sure we should read all that much into it (Erigaisi’s results),” “We’ve seen Caruana before the Candidates having a nightmare of a tournament and then winning the event. So I’m not sure if we need to read all that much into it. I guess it becomes a little bit of a mental (issue) at some point if you’re struggling at the very same tournament that you were struggling at before," “The loss to Harikrishna was harder to explain. He was taking chances… almost like he was playing for a win while creating risks only for himself. He went for a line where I had no idea what his idea was, besides not wanting to take a draw. That game was a strange one," commented Carlsen.