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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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Magnus Carlsen
Age: 34
Born: 1990
Born: November 30
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.
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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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In my experience, when I went to school, and especially in after-school, and during breaks, a lot of people wanted to sit down and play chess up till a certain age when it was not supposed to be cool anymore and people wanted to do other things.
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I was lucky enough to attend schools where they were understanding about when I needed to go abroad to play chess. Of course, socially it is important to go to school and interact with people your own age.
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I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.
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I am trying to beat the guy sitting across from me and trying to choose the moves that are most unpleasant for him and his style.
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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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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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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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