Good read!
is there not a link?
The “link” is at your local newsstand. (It is available online to subscribers.) But there is an extensive tease here:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_max
I can’t help but think that he’s a mental time bomb waiting to go off. His social life is stunted. He has nothing but chess and says he’ll stop playing and do something else if he loses interest in the game. But, he has no backup plan, let alone ideas for an alternative life.
His anti-computer style of play is fascinating. I wish there was more information given about his dislike of Kramnick. All in all, an interesting read.
Not a lot of news in the article. The best:
Carlsen fired Kasparov last year because he found him “too intense.” “I felt like every day I just had to build up my energy to be able to face him,” Carlsen said. Kasparov’s fee was “several hundred thousand dollars.”
During Carlsen’s last visit to New York he played the hustlers in Washington Square Park without being recognized. Carlsen likes to say Computers “are really good tacticallu and they can’t play chess.”
I’ll bet Magnus was in the soda can.
what does that mean?