I'm surprised that Carlsen doesn't say more about chess 960. He seems to think that the level of forcing opening prep has just made it too difficult to play against well prepared, unambitious opponents at classical time controls. His remedy is faster time controls, but why not chess 960?
I'm under the impression that the chess 960 world championship has been played at rapid or faster time controls. But why not play that with slower time controls, starting with an hour or two for computer free prep? The content would be incredibly rich, and to my mind much more interesting for us spectators than listening to the umpteenth repetition of discussions of whether the players are just trying to remember their prep on move 15.
The first part of the article is also relevant: https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-on-nepo-vs-ding
I'm surprised that Carlsen doesn't say more about chess 960. He seems to think that the level of forcing opening prep has just made it too difficult to play against well prepared, unambitious opponents at classical time controls. His remedy is faster time controls, but why not chess 960?
I'm under the impression that the chess 960 world championship has been played at rapid or faster time controls. But why not play that with slower time controls, starting with an hour or two for computer free prep? The content would be incredibly rich, and to my mind much more interesting for us spectators than listening to the umpteenth repetition of discussions of whether the players are just trying to remember their prep on move 15.