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Magnus Carlsen

14 quotes

“I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.”
Magnus Carlsen (born 1990) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet Magnus Carlsen, The New King of Chess - TIME, Eben Harrell Friday, Dec. 25, 2009
“I love the game, and I love to compete, but I am not obsessed with the struggle.”
Magnus Carlsen (born 1990) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet Magnus Carlsen, The New King of Chess - TIME, Eben Harrell Friday, Dec. 25, 2009
“I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.”
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“I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games.”
Magnus Carlsen (born 1990) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ChessBase.com - Magnus Carlsen on his chess career, 15 March 2010
“He played the Berlin, I played the most solid line, yada yada yada, let's go to the doping control.”
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“The best way to deal with losing is not to lose.”
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“When did I understand it was a draw? I understood it immediately. That doesn't mean you shouldn't play.”
Magnus Carlsen (born 1990) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: World Chess Championship 2018, Game 9 press conference
“I'm certainly somebody who hopes for more 960 in classical format because I feel like 960 is not that suited to rapid and blitz because you're just gonna play too poorly. You're just gonna have absolutely no clue, but if you actually have time to sit down and think for half an hour on your first five moves, then maybe you can get some more understanding of the game.”
Magnus Carlsen (born 1990) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in a stream with Eric Hansen, April 2021 53:29 - 54:36 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTJ100arAbw
“According to Garry [Kasparov], if you make 10 threats in a row, your opponent is gonna blunder eventually.”
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“I said, ‘I'll change tomorrow if that's okay, I just didn't even realize it today,’ but they said, ‘Well, you have to change now,’ and, well, at that point it became, you know, a bit of a matter of principle for me. [...] And yeah, so here we are.”
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“Honestly, I'm too old at this point to care too much. If this is what [the FIDE wants] to do [...] It's fine by me [...] [I'll] probably head off to somewhere where the weather is a bit nicer than here.”
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“Of course, I could have changed. Obviously, I didn’t want to. I stand by that.”
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“They can enforce their rules, that's fine by me [...] my response is that fine, then I'm out, like, fuck you.”
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“I think in general the future of classical chess as it is now is a little bit dubious. I would love to see more Fischer [Random] Chess being played over-the-board in a classical format. That would be very interesting to me, because I feel that that particular format is pretty well suited to classical chess as basically you need a lot of time in order to be able to play the game even remotely decently. And you can see that in the way that Fischer [Random] Chess is being played now when it is played in a rapid format. The quality of the games isn't very high because we make such fundamental mistakes in the opening. We don't understand it nearly enough and I think that would increase a lot if we were given a classical time control there. So I would definitely hope for that.”
Magnus Carlsen (born 1990) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: We’re trying to grow chess”: An Interview with Magnus Carlsen" GM Jon Tisdall in Norsk Sjakkblad / US Chess (2020)