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  • There wasn't any particular player I modeled my game after. I tried to learn from everyone and create my own style. I studied past players... Truth be told I never had a favorite player. It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people. I just go try to learn.

    Past   Player   Games  
    "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.
  • 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.

    Success   Winning   Chess  
  • I really enjoy the experience of playing humans. The psychological game is so much more important.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.

    Player  
    "I am chaotic and lazy". Interview with Maik Grossekathöfer, "Spiegel", March 15, 2010.
  • My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

    Player  
  • Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

    Sports   Doe   Minorities  
  • 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.

    School   Play   People  
    "The (New) Greatest Chess Player Of All Time". Interview with Ryan McKee, www.askmen.com. December 10, 2012.
  • 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.

  • I don't think there is a thing like overconfidence in chess. It's always better to be too confident than too reluctant.

    Source: www.esquire.com
  • I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

    Upset   Chess   Losing  
    "Magnus Carlsen, chess prodigy from Norway" by Dylan Loeb Mcclain, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2008.
  • I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

  • I played like a child!

    Children   Chess   Humour  
    "Magnificent Magnus, the world's youngest grandmaster". Interview with Hans Olav Lahlum, en.chessbase.com. April 20, 2004.
  • Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.

    Interview with Ryan McKee, www.askmen.com. December 10, 2012.
  • It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.

    People  
    "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.
  • I've never really had a favorite player, past or present.

    Past   Player  
    Source: theclassical.org
  • I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

    Might   Chess   Normal  
    "Magnus Carlsen: The 19-Year-Old King of Chess" by Eben Harrell, content.time.com. December 25, 2009.
  • 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.

    Games   Guy   Important  
    "The Top Chess Player In The World Impressed The Heck Out Of Everyone At This NYC Exhibition". Interview with Gus Lubin, www.businessinsider.com. September 4, 2012.
  • When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.

    Fun  
    Source: theclassical.org
  • People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.

    People  
  • I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.

  • I'm not really into rap.

    Interview with Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.
  • 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.

    Source: theclassical.org
  • You can feel the same thing in football or soccer - that for the best teams in Spain and England, for instance, the public... they're not really going to cheer at all when they play against bad teams unless they do something spectacular. Even if they're winning by a few goals they'll probably just say, "nah." That's normal and they're not excited about it.

    Source: theclassical.org
  • 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.

    Source: theclassical.org
  • 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.

    Guy  
  • 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.

    School  
  • 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.

  • There are certainly loads of players that I admire; I try to learn from all of the great masters both of the past and contemporary as well.

    Past   Player  
    Source: theclassical.org
  • Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's OK to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  • 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.

    Player   Games  
    Source: theclassical.org
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Magnus Carlsen quotes about: Chess Coaches Fun Past School Winning

Magnus Carlsen

  • Born: November 30, 1990
  • Occupation: Chess Player