#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2022
⏱️ 160 minutes
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Magnus Carlsen is the highest-rated chess player in history and widely considered to be the greatest chess player of all time. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:34) – Greatest soccer player of all time
(15:40) – Magnus’s approach to chess
(24:53) – Game 6 of the 2021 World Chess Championship
(28:54) – Chess openings
(46:19) – Chess variants
(49:04) – Elo Rating
(57:31) – World Chess Championship
(1:21:42) – Losing
(1:29:04) – Day in the life
(1:35:55) – Drunk chess
(1:40:26) – Chess training
(1:48:20) – Garry Kasparov
(1:57:37) – Greatest chess player of all time
(2:10:48) – Advice for chess players
(2:12:32) – Chess YouTubers
(2:16:03) – Henrik Carlsen
(2:21:38) – Lessons for life
(2:25:02) – Queen’s Gambit
(2:26:53) – Poker
(2:33:06) – Loneliness
(2:36:28) – How does the knight move?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Magnus Carlson, the number one ranked chess player |
| 0:04.5 | in the world and widely considered to be one of, if not the greatest chess player of all |
| 0:09.7 | time. |
| 0:11.2 | The camera or Magnus died 20 minutes into the conversation. |
| 0:14.7 | Most folks still just listen to the audio through a podcast player anyway, but if you're |
| 0:19.7 | watching this on YouTube or Spotify, we did our best to still make it interesting by |
| 0:25.1 | adding relevant image overlays. |
| 0:28.2 | I mess things up sometimes, like in this case. |
| 0:32.2 | But I'm always working hard to improve. |
| 0:34.5 | I hope you understand. |
| 0:36.7 | Thank you for your patience and support along the way. |
| 0:39.8 | I love you all. |
| 0:42.5 | And now a quick few second mentionary sponsor. |
| 0:44.9 | Check them out in the description. |
| 0:46.5 | It's the best way to support this podcast. |
| 0:48.9 | We got Shopify for e-commerce. |
| 0:51.4 | I think that's a new sponsor. |
| 0:53.1 | They've been there for a while. |
| 0:54.5 | Anyway, I've always loved Shopify. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm going to talk to Shopify CEO soon. |
| 0:58.9 | I hope, I think. |
| 1:00.4 | Anyway, I've liked agreeing for performance, fund rise for investing, better help for mental |
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