Magnus Carlsen arrives 2.30 mins late for a 3 minute game | World Blitz 2022

It was drama time at the first round of World Blitz 2022, Magnus Carlsen arrived 2 and a half minutes late for a minute game against GM Vladislav Kovalev. What happened next? Did Magnus win his game? Why was he late in the first place? Check out this video to find out.

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[kpk]

Kovalev has such great sportsmanship running down the clock to make it fair, and arguing to not start without Magnus. Mad respect.

[owenflanagan]

Kovalev clearly killed clock at the beginning to make it a fair match. True sport

[bakedbeans]

Now this is just great sportsmanship. Kovalev arguing that they shouldn't start the clock and wait for Magnus, him running down the clock to make the game fair, and even getting into a quick endgame! Mad respect. Magnus won the game, but Kovalev won hearts and respect.

[markkilgour]

Huge respect to Kovalev, he deliberately ran his clock down early in the match to even the game out more, showed real respect

[blop]

Some true sportsmanship from Kovalev there, stalling his own clock to make it a fair match 👍

[atherisGAY]

His opponent showed great sportsmanship. Giving away his time to level the playing field.

[hoplahey]

From an interview later that day: There was an organized skiing trip for the contestants. There was busses that took them to and from the place. Magnus, instead of going with the others had private transport and stayed a bit longer. Then the traffic took longer than they expected.

[noobturtle]

Forget the game look at 4:20 how smoothly he's rotating the pawns

[etrou]

Only Magnus would take more time to adjust than to think.

[jdubs]

Magnus adjusting his pieces twice was hilarious. So much confidence!

[PinkPufferfish]

3:31 I like how he makes a move then adjusts is pieces and then hits the clock 😂

[hitoall]

Carlsen is even adjusting pieces before hitting the clock! What confidence!

[theinacircleoftheancientpu]

Definitely some respect to Kovalev for some sportsmanship there. He didn't have to, but he did.

[kaioqrz]

Time was equal by move 12 out of 59 because his opponent stalled his own clock to even things out. He didn’t even want to start the clock in the first place.

[PartScavenger]

Came to see Magnus crushing with 30 seconds to go, but the hero was Kovalev. What a great guy.

[strangegamemoments]

I love the fact that Mag never looks at the opponent's face for even once, although the opponents have this habit of looking at him after every move. Mag is always looking at the board or to his leg or right never looks at the opponent. Insane!

[Crawldragon]

I really have to respect the attitude displayed in this video. Magnus showed up late, and a little scruffy from not having time to change into proper attire, but instead of making a whole thing out of it they shook hands respectfully and each gave the other a challenge worthy of their time. That's how civilized men conduct themselves.

[cesarjom]

Magnus is even taking 4-5 sec on his clock to straighten out his pieces. What a psych-out play of confidence!

[twentytwentyeight]

Should change the title of the video, Magnus is the world champion and all, but this level of sportsmanship deserves to be elevated. Hats off

[ataurrahman]

Such huge confidence, even though he is late he still make sure that every piece is at the centre of the square 😮