Anatoly Karpov is surprised by Rauf Mamedov’s decision

The twelfth world chess champion Anatoly Karpov said that Azerbaijani grandmaster Rauf Mamedov did wrong when he refused to fight on the second move of the game with world champion Magnus Carlsen during the online tournament Titled Tuesday.

Mamedov refused to continue the game with Carlsen at the blitz tournament on the second move. The Azerbaijani considered the Norwegian’s first move mocking and decided not to continue the game.

“I don’t understand why he was so upset. It was necessary to win this game and stop the mockery. Magnus is free to play the way he wants. In such a situation, it was necessary to win the game quickly and show by this that the trick was stupid. Was there a challenge in Carlsen’s move? What kind of challenge? He went and went, you never know what came into his head, there was no reason to give up.”