Comments on: [lang_nl]Persconferentie Magnus Carlsen[/lang_nl][lang_en]Press conference Magnus Carlsen[/lang_en]

By: jack

jack — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:59:11 +0000

magnus!magnus,best of the best chess player!!

By: Wolf Gray

Wolf Gray — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:19:19 +0000

Magnus is an extremely talented player, no doubts. As for the current scores against the World Champion and contesters (all included): Anand-Carlsen: +9-3=8; Kramnik-Carlsen: +4-1=5, Kamsky-Carlsen: +5-2=4; Topalov-Carlsen: +1-4=5 Make your conclusions.

By: Ana

Ana — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:59:42 +0000

For me magnus is the best chess player .He is 17 years old !!!!!!

By: zugzwang64

zugzwang64 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:42:19 +0000

The first game of Magnus’ that I played over was his “Mozart of Chess” brilliancy in the Caro Kann….wow!! Lately I discovered all the Google pages on him, and have immensely enjoyed playing over many of his other games and watching his analysis videos of some of them. How refreshing to have a player to rival Bobby Fischer (or anyone else for that matter) who is so modest yet so gifted, and makes no outrageous demands or scenes at his tournaments and matches. I played serious chess for almost 15 years and barely crossed the Expert threshold, so I know how much work and dedication it takes just to establish a baseline of game knowledge from which you begin to grow. To see such a young player already able to challenge and beat the best players in the world is truly a miracle, and a rare one at that.

To those who see fit to criticize his on-camera personna…I would challenge you to start today…accomplish what he has, and then learn a 2nd language to explain your accomplishments in front of an audience and camera. Good luck with that!

Bravo Magnus, you are an inspiration to me and millions of other players who wish you nothing but the success you so rightly deserve. Cheers!

Zug

By: j'adoube

j'adoube — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:08:49 +0000

There’s an almost poetic irony about Fischer dying the very week that Magnus has his breakout tournament. As in “The King is Dead. Long Live the King.”

The humility that Magnus displayed at 2:00 of the second video, citing his opponent’s cold as the probable reason for the inferior Qa4, is something that I’ve never seen in any top chessplayer. For that reason only, he will be the worthiest of champions.

The only thing that would have made his Corus victory sweeter: finding Ng3 against Anand. After all, Anand did not have a cold, and Magnus was halfway through a brilliant victory. Beating Anand and Kramnik in successive rounds would have been something special.

By: Tony Miles

Tony Miles — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:11:16 +0000

That was the pathetic girlie wuss Nigel Short hunting for tips – the guy is such a bloody shyster!

By: Robert Atlas

Robert Atlas — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:05:54 +0000

Anand, our current champion, seems to be quite a civilized fellow. I’m pleased to see that Magnus Carlsen, a likely future champion, comes across as comparably decent and thoughtful.

By: fda

fda — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:21:14 +0000

Yes, that’s Short asking him questions.

By: Hayri Kaya

Hayri Kaya — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:27:29 +0000

And the last thing is about Anand- Kramnik last round game showed us that both players have enough things to make the upcoming match exciting!

Seeing Anand sacrificed Bishop and Kramnik accepted it fearlessly to face with a Q & R attack in an “open filed game” and managed it very well was instructive, and result was the right of game a “draw”

But this was a beautiful draw I think, and hope to see more exciting games in their matches especially when Kramnik will have white pieces will be deciding moments of the match.

Out of many ideas I don’t think Kramnik will be faced to a big pressure when he will have black pieces. He is enough good to play defensive games with black, the important point is that his advantage with white pieces are dominant to his weaknesses with black pieces (because his “so called” weakness with black pieces rarely causing a lost but rather giving him “draws” and a draw is an important thing in especially match games)

Anyway I am currently in the mode of that match as you see

By: Hayri Kaya

Hayri Kaya — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:16:47 +0000

I am a Kramnik fan but I strongly congratulate Magnus. May be Kramnik was not so concentrated because of sickness but it’s something to be forgiven that Magnus wanted to go on to win because that would be first win over a world champion in his career. And I am sure Kramnik understands Magnus’ feelings. This was not a shame to Kramnik to loose him, he is a growing star and needs such games for example he could win against Anand, too but he blundered some moves and even could not keep a draw, but Kramnik was not so lucky Magnus did not blunder

Anyway sometimes defeats do not make so upset and this was one of them. Congratulations to Magnus and good luck to Kramnik especially against Anand in their match (may be it will be one of the best matchs ever played in classical chess history and I am waiting it surely!)

Cheers!