Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen wins first chess competition at Esports World Cup

Grandmaster number one, Magnus Carlsen, won the opening chess competition on the Internet at the World Cup. The 34 -year -old Norwegian will receive $ 250,000 (about 188,000 pounds).

The e -World Cup (EWC), which is held in Riyadh, is one of the largest multidisciplinary championships in competitive professional games.

Insert chess in this year’s schedule was somewhat controversial, but the championship organizers have argued that he was calculated as an ESPORT program because he was played by millions of people of all ages.

This is the second time that EWC has been organized and comes with a total prize bowl of about 70 million dollars (50 million pounds).

For seven weeks, teams from all over the world compete through 25 famous games, including Call of Duty, Street Fighter and Legue of Legends.

EWC, including chess this year, said the game arrives at a “new teacher”, 139 years after the first world chess champion crowned.

At the Electronic World Cup, competitors sit on their computer on stage in front of a direct audience, wearing screens at the heart rate. It is very similar to traditional sport, there are large screens, large names and commentators.

A number of Grandmasters participated in the online competition, which witnessed that the players were going through a group stage before a large number of tools reached the qualifiers.

It was the best traditional chess player in the world who crossed the title, after defeating Aloreza Firouzja.

Carlsen is not strange to adopt modernity in Modernity embraces in the game. Last year, he said that he would return to a major chess competition after the approval of the Sports Board of Directors Relaxing the bases of dress.

Carlsen left the World’s High Championship and the raid in New York, where he was defending his title, when he was told that he could not continue playing while wearing jeans.

“It was a great show, unlike anything I have seen so far,” Carlsen said after lifting the EWC Cup, a golden colored painting.

“I really hope this is a large part of the future for chess.

“Perhaps we can get a more stage next time,” he added, he has proven popular in the championship.