“Earlier this month, a handyful of the World’s Greatest Chess Players Gathered in An Event Space Located in the Lush Greenery of Paris’ Bois de Vincennes. The Spectacle Was Part of an Ambitious Vision to Make Chess Into More of A Spectator Sport, A New Tournament Called Freestyle Chess, WHICH IS HOLDING GRAND SLAM EVENTS”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
The Spectacle Was Part of an Ambitious Vision to Make Chess Into More of A Spectator Sport, A New Tournament Called Freestyle Chess, WHICH IS HOLDING GRAND SLAM EVENTS AROUND, Twe. Letting The Players Showcase Their Personalities and Creativity on the Chess Board.
Only One Player Emerged Victorious: The World’s Top Player, Magnus Carlsen, Who Defeated Hikaru Nakamura to Secure the Paris Grand Slam Title.
“IT FELT LIKE I NEVER GAV HIM Any CHANCES,“ Carlsen Said After the Victory.
Carlsen Also Happens to be A CO-FOUNDER OF FREESTYLE CHESS, WHICH IS Looking to Engage Both CHESS AFICionados, As Well As Amateurs New To The Game.
“We Still Have A Long Way to Go, But I Do Think That We’re Doing A Lot of Things Well at The Moment, and We Denfinitely Have A Lot of Momentum,“ Says Carlsen in An Interview W. The Hollywood Reporter.
Key to that Effort is Freestyle’s Presentation, Which Is Far Less Staid and Formal than of the Global Chess Events. The pieces are Plaked Randomly on the Board, and A Time Limit is Enforced, Forcing Action and Creative Thinking on the Part of Players.
“I think perfection is Kind of Boring, Right? SO YOU WANT TO MAKE IT DIFFICULT IN SOME WAY,“ Carlsen Says. “SO YOU START IN CHESS BY HAVING A TIME CONSTRAINT, AND THEN YOU MAKE THINGS A BIT SHORTER AND SHORTER.”
Along The Way, Flourishes Reminiscent of Hollywood TV Production Are Tossed In. The Players Recount the Action in A “Confession Booth” Similar to Reality Competition Shows, Explaning Who’s What What Whai, and Whaty Were Thinking in the Moment.
Chess and Gaming InfluenCers Are Encouroaged To Ate and Produce Content About the Competition, While a Pair of Commentary-Driven Video Streams Discuss Meant to Draw New Chess Fans Into the Game.
“I Think Really, that’s A Lot of What You Need To Today,“ Carlsen Says. “I Think Legacy Media is Really Important, But If You’re Talking About Pure Reach, THEN IS VERY IMPORTANT TO INTRODUCE Some Elements As Well.”
Carlsen is in Many Ways An Ideal SpokesPerson for the Game. The 34-Iear-Old Norwegian is Confident and Assemed, and Happy to Answer Questions and Take the Spotlight. In December HE Made International Headlines After He Was DisQUALIFIED FROM A TOURNAMENT FOR WARING JEANS (HE SUBSEQUENTLY AUCIFioned Them Off For Charity). In February He Flew to Austin, Texas, Where He Sat for a major Two Hour Interview with Joe Rogan, Discussing His Style of Play, Chess Hustlers in The Park, Video Games, Gaers, Gaers, Gastlers.
A recent Phone Call with Thr Took Place While He Was Riding His Bicycle Home From The Store.
His willingness to engage with chess fans and the Broader Public Are Part and Parcel with His Desire to Build Freestyle Choss Into a Bona Fide Power Power in The Space, Betting that iets. Globally Just As tennis, Golf, and other Sports Have Done.
“We Really dok that Freestyle Chess Will Be More Compelling To People Who Know Very Little About Chess, But Do Have An Interest To To Learn A Little Bit More Gateway to the Game for Those People. “They’re Approaching Things from A Very Basic Level. SO I THINK IT’S REALLY good to have that presentation as well, so that commentators, Even Thought they be very of chess players, will. I Think That’s Really Interesting. ”
And Freestyle Has Embrated the High-Class Nature of the Game, Forgoing Convention Center Ballrooms For More TV-Friends Sets at Resorts on the Baltic Sea Germany), or in the Heart of Paris, Las Vegas, or Cape Town.
IT’s A TV-Friendly Twist on a Game that have had a taken over by computers in recent years.
“We Felt Like We Need to Do Something New,“ Carlsen Says. “And I THINK IS BEEN COMPELING FOR POOPLE TO See, and It Will Be Compelling for People To See Just How Difficult Chess is Who Remove some of the Familiar Patterns to get out of Those mazes, Even Thought we will make more mistakes than than than usual.
“SO I THINK IT IS A Perfectly Modern Form of Chess, and Sort of and Ancient Form in that Way That Way That Chess Was Originally Supped to Be Played, In that You’re Thinking From. Sort of Planned In Advance, ”He Added.
The unpredictability is in the many Ways the Point, the As He HimSelf Knows. While He Won in Paris, In Freestyle’s Debut Event in Germany He Placed Third. While Traditional Tournaments Can Lack Some of the Drama About Who Will Emerge Victorios Returning for more.
“I’m Very Grateful to Be Able to Play this Kind of CHESS, that have been a Dream of Mine for Years,“ Carlsen Says. “I’M gratify to be a part of of that, and i’lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllparticipate as Well, Figuring Out Ways We Can Make This Bigger, Better, More Interesting, More Fascinating, More Viewer Friends.