<story><title>FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks</title><url>https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/nepo-ding-world-chess-championship-2023/2/1/4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WastingMyTime89</author><text>Hard to take the WCC seriously when everyone know Carlsen would have won and just find the whole thing too boring to take part.</text></item><item><author>agubelu</author><text>It was a very exciting WCC, but I feel like something should be done about the post-match press conferences. Many of the questions asked in the most prestigious chess tournament are not even remotely related to the games that were played, and sometimes plainly disrespectful towards the players.&lt;p&gt;The first question right after a new World Champion has been crowned was about the weather.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fasterik</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t see why that implies we shouldn&amp;#x27;t take it seriously. The world #1 didn&amp;#x27;t want to play, so we got a great match between the world #2 and #3 with some very interesting and complex games. Do you also think that Karpov shouldn&amp;#x27;t have been taken seriously as world champion?</text></comment>
<story><title>FIDE world chess championship decided in rapid tiebreaks</title><url>https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/nepo-ding-world-chess-championship-2023/2/1/4</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>WastingMyTime89</author><text>Hard to take the WCC seriously when everyone know Carlsen would have won and just find the whole thing too boring to take part.</text></item><item><author>agubelu</author><text>It was a very exciting WCC, but I feel like something should be done about the post-match press conferences. Many of the questions asked in the most prestigious chess tournament are not even remotely related to the games that were played, and sometimes plainly disrespectful towards the players.&lt;p&gt;The first question right after a new World Champion has been crowned was about the weather.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dkqmduems</author><text>I suspect Magnus would disagree.</text></comment>