After hours and hours and hours of following Carlsen, this was the best they could do? Not only was it lightweight, but the interviewer took the "this is all beyond me" and "watching paint dry" and "it's war" approaches, full of cliches. And let's not forget "you might go crazy." I can't imagine anyone being attracted to chess by this essentially repellent feature on causing suffering and making others (and yourself) feel stupid. What rot. It contained nothing, absolutely nothing, about the beauties and charms of chess; the closest it came was Daniel King's getting lost in time (in the features that didn't make the main on-air show), which wasn't all that great. One good revelation: Carlsen almost always immediately knows what move to make; so do I, in a sense, although in my case, it's usually the wrong move.
60 Minutes Magnus Carlsen Interview
uhohspaghettio Did you watch the espisode? The CAMERA clearly indicated Kasparov sat down without saying a word after allegedly being a half-hour late (I can't say the camera proved Kasparov was late), and left wordlessly no handshake, no nothing. Is this your idea of common courtesy?
Your misconception of ethics is hogwash too, something isn't automatically ethical just because you can get away with it, or the camera or referee didn't see it take place.
fullscreen thanks for some intelligent observations.
uhohspaghettio Did you watch the espisode? The CAMERA clearly indicated Kasparov sat down without saying a word after allegedly being a half-hour late (I can't say the camera proved Kasparov was late), and left wordlessly no handshake, no nothing. Is this your idea of common courtesy?
Your misconception of ethics is hogwash too, something isn't automatically ethical just because you can get away with it, or the camera or referee didn't see it take place.
fullscreen thanks for some intelligent observations.
I see a handshake and a "good luck" at the start of the game, and a hand shake when the game is over. Again I have to ask, what do you expect? Did you want Kasparov to adopt Magnus and train him in the ways of chess?
And so what...he was late, it's not the first nor the last time a chess player has been late for a game. Obviously the organizers had no problem with players being late or otherwise he would have been defaulted.
why do they call it 60 mins, i only saw like 15 mins,oh i loved hearing the fact that there are more posibilities in chess then there atoms, moves or whatever
I stand corrected, and I agree being late is the tardy players problem. Also, Kasparov did end up "adopting" Carlsen, so to speak, and did "train him in the ways of chess" for awhile :-)
There's also this
The 2 videos posted by Arctor are almost as informative as the 60 Minutes interview.
Wafflemaster, you friend must have missed some of this story because at one point the camera showed MC studying in his hotel room on his monstrous laptop!
Yes but did they say what he was studying?...
I remember being sorely disappointed by the New Yorker article about him, which acted as if chess were some unknown game from the highlands of Tajikistan.
Ivandh I'm sure you're wrong...chess is actually some unknown game from the highlands of Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan, and here's my unimpeachable authority for this fact:
Heh, was a bit misleading though... I didn't notice it, but after the interview a friend asked me "so does he ever study?!" Because it did make it look like he picked up the game just to beat his sister, a week later he was playing simuls at the mall wondering why adults cared he never lost, then he won some tournaments and drew kasparov. They ended by saying he's lazy.
Us chessplayers can fill in all the blanks, but I didn't realize how much it seems like some random kid never practiced but beat everyone and likes icecream :p
Since he's lazy and doesn't practice, maybe the ice cream is the secret to his success?! Did anyone catch what flavor he prefers? I think I'll be heading to the grocery store later today . . .