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I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

Magnus Carlsen

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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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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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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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You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes that's what intuition is.
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I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.
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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 feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.
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When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.
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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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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 played like a child!
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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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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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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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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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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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The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.
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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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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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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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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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