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The other piece of context that's worth noting is that Carlsen is not as good as he used to be (he's still the best player in the world, but not by as big of a margin as he was 5-10 years ago) and that he seems to getting increasingly exasperated with chess itself. Every GOAT eventually retires in a different type of way (Kasparov, Anand, Karpov, all did it a bit differently) and Carlsen's might be coming up soon.

>>qq66+(OP)
This doesn't hold up to a cursory analysis of Carlsen's rating. You can see Carlsen's historical ELO score on FIDE's website and look at it year over year and the difference between Carlsen and the #2, #3, #4, etc... is pretty consistent and very impressive. Usually the difference between a player ranked N and a player ranked N + 1 is about 5-10 ELO points, but Carlsen's is consistently 30+ including at this moment.

https://ratings.fide.com/top_lists.phtml

>>qq66+(OP)
Even Gukesh, crowned world champion recently, says Carlsen is the best player in the world.

>>qq66+(OP)
While it's true that chess is a young man's game, Magnus has not lost his ability to flow absolute dookie positions into mate like no one else under any controls.

>>qq66+(OP)
Anand is still active.

>>Maxata+y7
Carlsen is never again going to go 125 classical games without a defeat.