#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time

Magnus Carlsen is the highest-rated chess player in history and
widely considered to be the greatest chess player of all time.
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (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?