Magnus Carlsen Quotes About Chess

Quotes about: Chess

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

  Magnus Carlsen

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

• 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.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Giving, Intuition

• 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.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Book, Learning, Understanding

• 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.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Intelligent, Men, People

• 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.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Chess, Talent, Satisfied

  "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.

• All I expect are wins and to get pleasure from the game. And if someone thinks something about me, if someone's dissatisfied with something... that's not my headache. I hope someday I'll become World Champion - and I'll make all these people happy. But even if for some reason that doesn't happen it won't stop me getting pleasure from chess. I'm sure of that.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Winning, Thinking, Games

• Contrary to many young Colleagues, I do believe that it makes sense to study the Classics.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Believe, Practice, Chess

• I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Upset, Chess, Losing

  "Magnus Carlsen, chess prodigy from Norway" by Dylan Loeb Mcclain, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2008.

• 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.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Self Confidence, Winning

• I can’t count the times I have lagged seemingly hopelessly far behind, and nobody except myself thinks I can win. But I have pulled myself in from desperate [situations]. When you are behind there are two strategies - counter-attack or all men to the defences. I’m good at finding the right balance between those.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Men, Thinking, Winning

• Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Player, Thinking, Games

  Interview With Sean Ingle, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

• 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.

  Magnus Carlsen

  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.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Success, Winning, Chess

• 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.

  Magnus Carlsen

  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.

• I played like a child!

  Magnus Carlsen

  Children, Chess, Humour

  "Magnificent Magnus, the world's youngest grandmaster". Interview with Hans Olav Lahlum, en.chessbase.com. April 20, 2004.

• I learnt an enormous amount, but there came a point where I found there was too much stress. It was no fun any more. Outside of the chessboard I avoid conflict, so I thought this wasn't worth it.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Fun, Stress, Chess

• For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I think it shows better who plays the best chess. That sounds self-serving but I think it's also right.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Self, Play

  "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.

• The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [...] Today's game was provided by Garry.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Games, Chess, Today

• My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Father, Player, Chess

• I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Might, Chess, Normal

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

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

  Magnus Carlsen

  Thinking, Chess, Overconfidence

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Giving Up, Fun, Playing Chess

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

  Magnus Carlsen

  Sports, Doe, Minorities

• I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Sports, Player, Years

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I honestly don't read that much. Obviously I read chess books - in terms of favorites, Kasparov's 'My Great Predecessors' is pretty good.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Book, Chess, Term

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