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Defeated by chess: how those who chase greatness in the ancient game often pay a terrible price

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| The Toronto Star Verified
China’s chess grandmaster Ding Liren, right, and India’s chess grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju square off at the start of the FIDE World Chess Championship in Singapore on November 25, 2023. On the contrary, Carlsen concluded, Ding seemed “permanently broken.” Ding agreed that something was very wrong. “It doesn’t seem like I’ve been playing the way I used to,” he told Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper in the lead-up to his title defence against Gukesh Dommaraju.
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The Stress of Elite Chess Is Wearing Down the Game’s Champions

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By Jordan Himelfarb Verified
| The Walrus Magazine Verified
This is how the story of a great chess grandmaster usually begins. A parent or teacher discovers an exceptional mind: a memory of shocking precision; a special intuition for geometry; a gift for logic and abstraction. When they are introduced to the game at four or five or six, fluency comes quickly. When that talent is cultivated, others are revealed: monastic discipline, fierce competitiveness, myopic focus. Chess, for the child, becomes everything.
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