Magnus Carlsen

Norwegian chess player

24 stories

16 quotes

Faustino is much better than [Lionel] Messi was at the age of 12. He’s on the right path and should enjoy it. One day, Messi will be lucky to be compared with him.”
I think Nihal is really good in this format. He's been... a little bit unlucky that I've had very little choice but to pick him... in the border finals. Um, but, um, no, I think that his performance was not bad at all, and I think he had a very healthy approach to it as well. Obviously, when you lose without reaching a board game, it doesn't feel great, but I think he did things in a very good way,
I made sure not to do the same things here, that's for sure,
Not losing a single game in such a format, you need not only skill, but a little bit of luck, a little bit of randomness as well,
I think progress, evolution, whatever you want to call it is never going to be linear. There are always going to be other things that are going on and so on but I'm happy that things are moving in this direction generally where chess is becoming faster and more accessible."
I started watching the Mourinho documentary on Netflix the other day and they were talking about the first season that they were just winning 1-0 every match and I was thinking, well, that sounds pretty nice, doesn't it

Earlier

Chess-Niemann says he will be ‘stone cold killer’ as Carlsen feud resurfaces in documentary

Reutersreuters.com/sports/chess…

In its opening moments, Untold: Chess Mates contextualizes a cheating scandal that rocked the top tiers of competitive chess in 2022—which spiraled out of control with allegations of a player using vibrating sex toys—by explaining how the game has evolved culturally from its Cold War stereotypes

Timetime.com/article/2026…