Magnus Carlsen

"In six months of working with Magnus I have seen in him many of the qualities of the great champions. – Garry Kasparov"

"He played the Berlin, I played the most solid line, yada yada yada, lets go to the doping control."

"The best way to deal with losing is not to lose."

"I feel sorry for players who are always lying awake at night, brooding over their games."

"You could say that both Fischer and Carlsen had or have the ability to let chess look simple. – Viswanathan Anand"

"I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly."

"I love the game, and I love to compete, but I am not obsessed with the struggle."

"I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but Im just a normal person."

"I think in general the future of classical chess as it is now is a little bit dubious. I would love to see more Fischer [Random] Chess being played over-the-board in a classical format. That would be very interesting to me, because I feel that that particular format is pretty well suited to classical chess as basically you need a lot of time in order to be able to play the game even remotely decently. And you can see that in the way that Fischer [Random] Chess is being played now when it is played in a rapid format. The quality of the games isnt very high because we make such fundamental mistakes in the opening. We dont understand it nearly enough and I think that would increase a lot if we were given a classical time control there. So I would definitely hope for that."

"When did I understand it was a draw? I understood it immediately. That doesnt mean you shouldnt play."

"Im certainly somebody who hopes for more 960 in classical format because I feel like 960 is not that suited to rapid and blitz because youre just gonna play too poorly. Youre just gonna have absolutely no clue, but if you actually have time to sit down and think for half an hour on your first five moves, then maybe you can get some more understanding of the game."