
Currents 068: Jonathan Rowson on the Chess Drama
The Jim Rutt Show
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The Less Generous Interpretation of Magnus's Behaviour
The most generous interpretation of magnus's behaviour is that his fame has gone to his head. Maybe this decision not to play the world champianship match, maybe all these things meanthat he's lost pospective somehow and doesn't really care what the truth is. That's a less generous interpretation. For for nimen, the most generous interpretation is that he cheated a lot when he was young, or at least cheated to some extent when he was younger. And those are the auptions my my sense of it is that magnus has slightly lost the plot... But no convincing evidence, but maybe some signal from the cestot com thing. Though againa past performance is no
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