Magnus Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen
Sven Magnus Øen Carlsenis a Norwegian chess grandmaster, and the current World Chess Champion...
NationalityNorwegian
ProfessionChess Player
Date of Birth30 November 1990
CityTonsberg, Norway
CountryNorway
moving intuition sometimes
You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.
chess talent satisfied
Maybe if I didn't have the talent in chess I'd find the talent in something else. The only thing I know is that I have talent in chess, and I'm satisfied with that.
winning needs belief
You need to have that edge, you need to have that confidence, you need to have that absolute belief that you’re the best and that you’ll win every time.
moving guy psychology
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.
intelligent men people
One of the things that first attracted me to chess is that it brings you into contact with intelligent, civilized people - men of the stature of Garry Kasparov, the former world champion, who was my part-time coach.
self-confidence winning opportunity
Self-confidence is very important. If you don't think you can win, you will take cowardly decisions in the crucial moments, out of sheer respect for your opponent. You see the opportunity but also greater limitations than you should. I have always believed in what I do on the chessboard, even when I had no objective reason to. It is better to overestimate your prospects than underestimate them.
thinking giving intuition
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.
book learning understanding
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
trying looks facts
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.
beautiful powerful thinking
Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.