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.
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 … - Magnus Carlsen
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 …
- Magnus Carlsen
My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway. - Magnus Carlsen
My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life. - Magnus Carlsen
My father, a fine chess player himself, has been a massive influence throughout my life.
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. - Magnus Carlsen
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'm not really into rap. - Magnus Carlsen
I'm not really into rap.
I played like a child! - Magnus Carlsen
I played like a child!
When you have fun then you're more interested in learning. - Magnus Carlsen
When you have fun then you're more interested in learning.
If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people. - Magnus Carlsen
If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is. - Magnus Carlsen
You have to choose the move that feels right sometimes; that's what intuition is.
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