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I'm more interested in the games than the people.

Magnus Carlsen

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Magnus Carlsen
Age: 34
Born: 1990
Born: November 30
Chess Player
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Tonsberg
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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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 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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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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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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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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I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.
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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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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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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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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 feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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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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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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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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You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes that's what intuition is.
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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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It's nice to be financially secure. Apart from that, I really don't care too much about money.
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