Carlsen wants World Championship knockout

You'd be surprised.

On topic: Probably Carlsen wants to change the format because he finds it boring. I don't think he likes to prepare, just to play chess.

Knockouts are more random though, like some people have alreayd pointed out, and we might have more surprise champions. I don' like that at all, it makes the title feel more like a wandering trophy and takes away a lot of the prestige.

It speaks highly of Carlsen though, that he wants a format that in all likelyhood will lead to him losing the title much sooner than with the current. He clearly wants what he thinks is best for the sport.

To me minimatch knockouts are bad for many reasons. A huge amount of these minimatches are decided in rapid or blitz (or even worse, Armageddon), and the draw becomes very important. When you could become World Champion without playing a single opponent in the top 20 or winning games except in blitz, it just makes the whole thing a bit too random.

My idea is best.