# Magnus Carlsen profile in this week's New Yorker **URL:** \ **Category:** All Things Chess\ **Created:** [March 14, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443 "2011-03-14T18:14:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![billbrock](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/billbrock/32/242_2.png) [@billbrock](https://forum.uschess.org/u/billbrock)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443/1 "2011-03-14T18:14:53Z")
Good read! ---
**Author:** ![billwong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@billwong](https://forum.uschess.org/u/billwong)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443/2 "2011-03-14T18:34:27Z")
is there not a link? ---
**Author:** ![billbrock](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/billbrock/32/242_2.png) [@billbrock](https://forum.uschess.org/u/billbrock)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443/3 "2011-03-15T00:44:20Z")
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](http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/03/21/110321fa_fact_max) ---
**Author:** ![ChessSpawn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/chessspawn/32/259_2.png) [@ChessSpawn](https://forum.uschess.org/u/ChessSpawn)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2011, 11:03am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443/4 "2011-03-17T11:03:22Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Drantos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Drantos](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Drantos)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443/5 "2011-03-31T17:30:33Z")
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.” ---
**Author:** ![ChessSpawn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/chessspawn/32/259_2.png) [@ChessSpawn](https://forum.uschess.org/u/ChessSpawn)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443/6 "2011-03-31T20:18:06Z")
> [@Drantos](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![billwong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@billwong](https://forum.uschess.org/u/billwong)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443/7 "2011-03-31T21:35:01Z")
what does that mean? ---
**Author:** ![hmb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@hmb](https://forum.uschess.org/u/hmb)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2011, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443/8 "2011-04-01T02:38:30Z")
> [@billwong](#): > > what does that mean? [gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10 … gy-drinks/](http://gambit.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/beware-of-chess-playing-energy-drinks/) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/system/32/2_2.png) [@system](https://forum.uschess.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 8:35am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/magnus-carlsen-profile-in-this-weeks-new-yorker/14443/9 "2024-04-22T08:35:52Z")