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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The World Championships - Are You Anxious?

I'm a lot more proud of my streak of being rated number one in the world, which is now since I think the summer of 2011. So if you're not playing the world championships, there's a lot of people who are saying that perhaps the world championships don't matter anymore. How much anxiety or even fear do you have before making a difficult decision on the chessboard? When it's a high stakes game, how nervous do you get? How much anxiety do you have in all that calculations? You're sitting there for 10, 15 minutes because you're in a fog. There's always a possibility of a blunder of a mistake.

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