Korchnoi: Carlsen has achieved his success due to "hypnotic abilities"

KOLKATA: It's around bringing the X-factor to the postpone and Magnus Carlsen, the Mozart of Chess, has a a small number of up his sheath. Viswanathan Anand, of avenue, knows how to counter for the most part, but there's something more to facilitate might comprehend the Indian champion thinking at some point in the World Chess Championship initial in Chennai on November 9.


There are strong speculations in the chess globe to facilitate Carlsen uses hypnotic powers and it was refueled at some point in the third-round match next to the Sinquefield Chess Cup in Saint Louis on September 12 this day, what time American Grandmaster Hikaru Nakamura surprised one and all by wearing sunglasses representing his game not in favor of Carlsen.

Many felt Nakamura tried the sunglasses to steer clear of eye speak to with Carlsen, even though the US GM looked to perform it down. "I truly felt like responsibility something discrete...Why not? Life is terse, might as well own a quantity of fun all as soon as in a while, bearing in mind how overly serious chess seems to be next to epoch," he tweeted.

But to facilitate didn't interrupt the chess websites to harp on the hypnosis theory, to facilitate Carlsen allegedly uses to force his opponents into making blunders. Many experts believe chess hypnosis exists and is used by focusing really troublesome on a detail clear at some point in the game to unsettle the opponent.

Back in 2011, 80-year-old legend defeater Korchnoi held in an interview to facilitate he determinedly alleged Carlsen has achieved his victory due to "hypnotic abilities".

"I don't distinguish to facilitate Carlsen has the chess capability and I can't understand next to all how he achieves such incredible victory. I can conjecture why, but it's got rejection give instructions relation to chess," Korchnoi had held.

"In the chess globe at hand are a a small number of fill with with extremely incredible hypnotic abilities. Not so long previously I wrote in solitary of my books to facilitate at hand were three chess players in history who can (or can) read judgment of their opponents: (Mikhail) Tal, (Henrique) Mecking and Carlsen. That's come again?, I think, explains the Norwegian phenomenon. He reads judgment," Korchnoi added.

Russian legend Gary Kasparov strongly objected to Korchnoi's views while Russian individualist GM Alexander Morozovich held in a lighter vein: "Well, I smoothly practice chess hypnotism. But exclusive of several effect."

But at hand own been instances what time chess players own openly tried to negate the hypnotic abilities of his opponent. During the 1959 Candidates Tournament, Benko in order to counter the "hypnotic stare" of the legendary Tal, pulled improbable from his bag deep sunglasses.