799 - James' Chess Match of the Century with Henrik Carlsen

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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I have the honor to play 6 matches of Blitz Chess Game with the father of the famous chess grandmaster, Magnus Carlsen's father, Henrik Carlsen! It was such a great match. On top of that, he came on to the podcast to talk about the matches, adult learning, and how is it like to be the father of a great chess grandmaster! We also talked about how they built a chess learning empire as well!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.8	This is the James Altiger Show.
0:12.8	Today on the James Altiger Show.
0:16.2	So Magnus Carlson is the world chess champion.
0:20.1	He's also, by the way, been number one in the world for fantasy football, which is interesting
0:24.6	to be number one in the world for two different things.
0:27.0	But it shows if you're extremely skilled at one thing, you might be great at other things,
0:33.6	be able to translate those skills over, which is a big part of what I write about in Skip
0:38.0	the Line.
0:39.0	But I had an interesting day today.
0:41.6	I played Magnus Carlson's father in a speed match on chess on a website that they partially
0:50.6	own the Carlson family partially owns.
0:52.8	At 24.com, and it's part of the play Magnus group, which I just realized a public company
0:57.3	in Norway.
0:58.6	They basically rolled up or bought a bunch of very good chess related companies and combine
1:03.0	them together and built a significant company.
1:05.6	So we played a match, the 60 year old Henrik Carlson and me.
1:13.8	Henrik is very strong.
1:14.8	He's had a good teacher in his son, I imagine, who's the world champion.
1:20.7	There was tough games, then the Scottish GM Simon Williams, otherwise known as the ginger
1:26.0	GM, was very popular on Twitch, did some commentary for all six games.
1:32.0	And it was very funny to watch him do commentary on the games.
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