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Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.

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Magnus Carlsen
Age: 34
Born: 1990
Born: November 30
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Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen
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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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You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes that's what intuition is.
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I'm not really into rap.
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I'm definitely the first no.1 in the world since Fischer, and probably at least since Kasparov, who probably has the most potential to dominate for the foreseeable future.
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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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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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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.
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I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.
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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 really enjoy the experience of playing humans. The psychological game is so much more important.
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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 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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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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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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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'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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Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.
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