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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

Magnus Carlsen

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Magnus Carlsen
Age: 33
Born: 1990
Born: November 30
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Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen
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It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.
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Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.
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I'm not really into rap.
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I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.
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You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes that's what intuition is.
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I played like a child!
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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'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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I'm more interested in the games than the 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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The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.
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Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
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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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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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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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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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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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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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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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I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.
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