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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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Magnus Carlsen
Age: 33
Born: 1990
Born: November 30
Chess Player
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Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen
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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 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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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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Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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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'm more interested in the games than the people.
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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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Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
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I think with chess as with everything, marketing is the main issue.
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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'm not really into rap.
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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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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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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 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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When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.
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