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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 don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I'm not really into rap.
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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 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 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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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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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 played like a child!
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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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When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.
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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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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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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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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'm more interested in the games than the people.
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