Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen wins first chess competition at Esports World Cup
The number one great master Magnus Carlsen won the opening online chess competition at the Esports World Cup. The 34 -year -old Norwegian will receive $ 250,000 (about £ 188,000).
The Esports World Cup (EWC), which is held in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, is one of the biggest disciplined tournaments of competitive professional games.
Chess was a bit controversial to include it in this year’s program, but the organizers of the tournament were considered as a espor because they were played by millions of people of all ages.
EWC was staged for the second time and comes with a total prize pot of approximately $ 70 million (£ 50 million).
For seven weeks, teams from all over the world are competing between 25 popular games, including Call of Duty, Street Fighter and League of Legends.
EWC, this year, adding chess, the game’s first world chess champion 139 years after the crowning of “a new milestone” reached, he said.
In the Esports World Cup, competitors sit on a scene in front of a live audience and wear heartbeat speed monitors. As in traditional sports, there are large screens, large noun sponsors and commentators.
A series of grandmothers participating in the online competition, players before entering the best scorers playoffs saw a group of stages.
After beating Alireza Firouzja number eight, he became the best traditional chess player in the world that cinch the title.
Carlsen is not stranger to embrace modernity. Embracing modernity in the game. Last year, the sport management organ said he would return to a big chess competition after agreed to loosen the outfit code.
When Carlsen was told that he could not continue playing while wearing jeans, the world Rapid and Blitz chess championships in New York, where he defended his title.
Bir There has been an incredible show that I have ever seen, Carl Carlsen said after lifting the Ewc cup, a golden plate, a golden plate.
“I hope this is a big part of the future for chess.
“Maybe the next time we can go on a bigger stage,” he added that he was popular in the tournament.
