Magnus Carlsen - The Mozart of Chess

Originally posted by greenpawn34
"It seems he may have a talent that should not be wasted on just playing chess."

Just leave him alone to play chess, he is giving millions harmless pleasure.

There are already enough of these clever people going around screwing things up.

Look at the brain power that went into building atomic weapons.
Then think of all the other ingenious ways ...[text shortened]... as it phrased?

The game was played in 1851 but given the name 'The Immortal' in 1855.

When he missed that date, he said his memory wasn't as good as it once was.
Perhaps he has forgotten some of the 10,000 games too and who played the
games. The only game I can remember is the Scholars Mate. But I had
never thought about trying to memorize some master games and even if I
had I would not have tried to memorize who played them and the dates. I
never liked memorizing dates in history class in school. Not my thing.

Originally posted by RJHinds
When he missed that date, he said his memory wasn't as good as it once was.
Perhaps he has forgotten some of the 10,000 games too and who played the
games. The only game I can remember is the Scholars Mate. But I had
never thought about trying to memorize some master games and even if I
had I would not have tried to memorize who played them and the dates. I
never liked memorizing dates in history class in school. Not my thing.

Nobody cares. Shut up.

Originally posted by RJHinds
When he missed that date, he said his memory wasn't as good as it once was.
Perhaps he has forgotten some of the 10,000 games too and who played the
games. The only game I can remember is the Scholars Mate. But I had
never thought about trying to memorize some master games and even if I
had I would not have tried to memorize who played them and the dates. I
never liked memorizing dates in history class in school. Not my thing.

The only game I can remember is the Scholars Mate.

And you're the 34th best player on this site? 😞

I think Magnus said 1859. Close enough. Let's not quibble about a year. Knowing all those positions is pretty fantastic.

I do wish they had tested him on some uninspiring Petroff position from the 1950s though. The 2 examples were the 1851 game and one of his own which was part of the program. That's the trouble with broadcasts; we never know quite how genuine every thing is.

Oh another thing, the interviewer said MC was very honest and was surprised because chess is a game of deception. I don't see chess as a game of deception at all. Maybe he was thinking of poker?

I wish they'd stop calling everyone the Mozart. I hold in my hand Capablanca's 100 best games of chess "Masterpieces by the Mozart of the Chessboard." I just pulled up an old article calling young Fischer the Mozart of Chess, and another calling Reshevsky the Mozart of Chess.

I agree. Who is this Mozart anyway?

User 343169 has only played one game on here.


He as White timed out here....Obviously off composing a minuet in B Minor.
And look how he develops his Knights.....A new term.....Mozart Knights.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
I agree. Who is this Mozart anyway?

User 343169 has only played one game on here.

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He as White timed out here....Obviously off composing a minuet in B Minor.
And look how he develops his Knights.....A new term.....Mozart Knights.

Mozart was playing black. Sorry GP - had to correct you. With my limited chess knowledge its probably the only chance I will get to do that.

Ah - you are correct.

A new chess term.....greenpawn is an idiot and not Mozart Knights.
(Pity. I liked Mozart Knights)

Originally posted by Thabtos
I wish they'd stop calling everyone the Mozart. I hold in my hand Capablanca's 100 best games of chess "Masterpieces by the Mozart of the Chessboard." I just pulled up an old article calling young Fischer the Mozart of Chess, and another calling Reshevsky the Mozart of Chess.

It's more appropriate for Capablanca, boring old fuddy-duddy, anyway. Carlsen is the Liszt of Chess, or maybe the Paganini.

Richard

(Edit: and of course Lasker is the Bach of Chess!)

Something else, somewhat related ...
Chessbase.com posted "The Great Chess Movie" in today's article (with Fischer in the headline). This is a documentary from 1981 (I think) that covers the world of chess back in the late 70s.

I remember watching it at the Film Forum in NYC ... don't think this was widely distributed --- worth watching!

Cheers,

Originally posted by TimmyBx
there was an interesting 13 minute segment on "60 minutes" tonight - you can see the video here.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7399370n&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cbsnews%2Ffeed+%28CBSNews.com%29

I really enjoyed it!

Thanks for the link. Enjoyed it.

I am unable to view my Games when I click on "My Games" Can you please help?

Originally posted by Proper Knob
[b]The only game I can remember is the Scholars Mate.

And you're the 34th best player on this site? 😞[/b]

Well, I do know the Fool's Mate, too; but I never got caught in that one.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
It's more appropriate for Capablanca, boring old fuddy-duddy, anyway. Carlsen is the Liszt of Chess, or maybe the Paganini.

Richard

(Edit: and of course Lasker is the Bach of Chess!)

If anyone knows of the Buddy Holly of chess, please PM me, as I want to buy all his books.

Originally posted by Paul Leggett
If anyone knows of the Buddy Holly of chess, please PM me, as I want to buy all his books.

*whispers*raymond keene?*/whispers*

Richard