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Simen Agdestein on Magnus Carlsen

31 January 2008 10:20 AM CET | Last modified: 16:58 | By Peter Doggers  | Filed under: Reports | Tags: ,

Yesterday morning I had an interview with GM Simen Agdestein. It was about his appearance in the Norwegian version of Dancing with the Stars, about his football career, about him playing the piano and of course about Carlsen, lots of Magnus Carlsen.

That Simen Agdestein from Norway can play decent chess, you knew already. And that he’s coaching quite a famous young boy, is a known fact too. Even the fact that he used to be a professional soccer player, is common knowledge. But did you know he can also play the piano?

Here’s an in-depth interview (27 min.) with the Norwegian grandmaster.

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Agdestein told a lot about Carlsen’s career so far, but if you want to know more about it, we can certainly recommend his book Wonderboy.




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8 Responses to “Simen Agdestein on Magnus Carlsen”

  1. Philipp Somrowsky on 31 January 2008 12:48 PM

    Do you have any more pictures of this chess girl, Ariane Caioli. On and off the board, everything will do. Strictly chess, of course.

  2. Krannjik on 31 January 2008 16:04 PM

    Isn’t that guy like a homo universalis

  3. Gegga on 1 February 2008 0:51 AM

    I think Simen is almost more famous in Norway than Magnus is. Simen was the only known chess player until Magnus came along. And he was also a very good football (soccer) player. After participating in “Dancing with the stars” (or something like that) he became well even more known. But of course, he was already one of “the stars”, so he is well known.

    And he seems like a very nice person to me, and he has a great reputation in Norway.

  4. caturcoach on 1 February 2008 16:14 PM

    I’m interested in the CHESS song! How can i get the notes or the midi or mp3 file?

  5. NN on 1 February 2008 20:08 PM

    great interview

  6. joe justice on 2 February 2008 4:03 AM

    Agdestein defeated Bareev with black in the World junior championship in Norway in 1986 in the final round in a very memorable game (a nimzo-indian). As a result Bareev who was leading till then lost the championship to Arencibia. I think Agdestein came second. Bareev sat in the hall way pondering his defeat for a while. He was obviously devastated.

  7. Stefan on 3 February 2008 15:18 PM

    Great interview, very interesting. Thank you.

  8. NN on 8 February 2008 15:17 PM

    You can find many pictures of Arianne Caoili on Google.

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