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

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Is It All About Controlling the Middle?

When you're evaluating a position, are you looking at the whole board? Or is it like a bunch of groupings of pieces overlapping and like dancing together kind of thing? I would say it's more of the latter that would be more precise that you look. Like if you can control the middle, you can more easily attack on both sides. That applies to pretty much any game.

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