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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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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 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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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'm more interested in the games than the people.
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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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My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
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I played like a child!
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I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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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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When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.
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I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.
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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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You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes that's what intuition is.
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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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I'm not really into rap.
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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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Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.
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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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