Magnus Carlsen drops out of World Championship cycle

The shock on Friday: the world's number one player for most of 2010, 19-year-old Norwegian GM Magnus Carlsen, has decided to drop out of the current World Championship cycle, in which he had reached the Candidate stage of the last eight. The series of knock-out matches is scheduled to begin in March next year, to determine the challenger of the World Champion Vishy Anand. <a href="[Post:view_link]">Letter to FIDE.</a>

R Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen, Chess World Cup final

Carlsen's epochal world title triumph proves an antidote to

Viswanathan Anand backs Magnus Carlsen's suggestion to revisit

FIDE World Chess Cup (Round 7.2.): Carlsen Books Spot In Final

Carlsen's reign as world chess champion set to end as he will not

World chess champion magnus carlsen hi-res stock photography and

Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi draw game two of FIDE World Championship

Carlsen wins the last big chess competition he's never won before

Magnus Carlsen blames chess opponent's watch for loss in anti

John Bartholomew on X: I completely forgot that 19 year-old

The world champion is crowned, again!

World chess champion grandmaster Magnus Carlsen throws out a

Magnus Carlsen's Legacy Is Still Being Written - The Ringer

Magnus Carlsen plays the 2021 World Cup