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Unpopular opinion: I don't trust Carlsen, Naka with the "Future of Chess
***Thoughts of a "Chess Purist", might sound archaic and traditional but here goes nothing*** For me this whole Freestyle Chess is a vanity project for Carlsen, he wants to establish himself as a great among 3 generations: The **Vishy, Topalov** generation, his contemporaries(**Naka, Fabi**) , and the current upcoming generation (**Alireza, Gukesh**). I dont think he would be an outright favorite with the current generation without the work ethic required. i.e doing the boring ass mole rat work of opening prep. His best chance is shorter time controls, fischer random where his talent might shine through. He sure is still the most talented chess player currently, but him pushing for shorter formats, Fischer Random just shows that he wants to stay at the top just by relying on his talent without the discipline and work. This just comes out as ***LAZY***. While the kids are really prepared to spend time digging out opening novelties, leveraging AI engines etc, Magnus is just done with that phase. I want to still believe Carlsen is genuine, he has been pushing for chess variants even when he was playing actively. But he did enjoy his time and has become the player he is at the traditional FIDE events, depriving this opportunity for the next gen players is unfair. Coming to Nakamura, he is just trying to get his pockets filled, I dont buy all the chess should reach a wider audience crap he preaches, they probably have 2-3 years of decent chess left and are trying to make most of it, nothing wrong with it, but I wouldn't trust them with the "future of chess". P.S I hate Levy he is just another opportunist still cant believe he is taken seriously by stakeholders of the game(irrelevant but cathartic)3
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