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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What Happens When Matches Are Close?

In chess, it's always much more likely that one of the players is going to break away than the others. And in other matches as well, even though a lot of people, before the match in 2016, against Kariaki, there were people who thought before the match that I was massively overrated as a favorite. It gives people the illusion that the matchup was very close. Well, actually, it just means that the nature of the game makes the matches close very often.

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