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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

Magnus Carlsen

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Magnus Carlsen
Age: 33
Born: 1990
Born: November 30
Chess Player
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Tonsberg
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen
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Merciless
Games
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Powerful
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I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games. I analyze when I'm on the computer, either my games or my opponents. But mostly my own.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you're - you're the best and you'll win every time.
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I don't really watch too many movies. I don't have the patience usually to watch one, one and a half or two hours in a row.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
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Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.
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For me, the most important thing is to continue to play well and to be a positive figure and hopefully a role model for kids as well.
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Not winning a tournament is not an option for me, unless it's no longer theoretically possible - then of course winning becomes impossible. But up to that point, not winning is just not an option.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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Of course, analysis can sometimes give more accurate results than intuition but usually it’s just a lot of work. I normally do what my intuition tells me to do. Most of the time spent thinking is just to double-check.
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I'm not really into rap.
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My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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There are so many games that I've seen that I've learned from. I never - that's also part of the same - never single out a particular player or a particular game.
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I played like a child!
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I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.
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What I admired most about him [Bobby Fischer] was his ability to make what was in fact so difficult look easy to us. I try to emulate him.
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