“Normally, the world championship is very successful at finding and celebrating the best player in the world.
It’s still got a lot of prestige, but this year it’s a bit of a strange one.”In some ways, this should be the biggest world championship yet.
Howell noted that it’s not particularly rare for the world chess championship to be without the game’s top player.
“There have been several cases of a player being world champion, but maybe not being the strongest on paper.
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Persons:
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Locations:
India, China, Norway, Singapore, Norwegian, Budapest, Russian, Ukraine, Moscow, Russia, Asia