Magnus Carlsen: The Mozart of Chess | 60 Minutes Archive

In 2012, Bob Simon met then-21-year-old chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who admitted that he loved seeing his opponents squirm. At the time, he was the youngest No. 1 chess player ever.

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[seadsalihovic]

So much respect for his father. This talent would had never been found if his family didn’t support him like they did.

[thickymcghee]

The interviewer, Bob Simon, was the perfect pick for this interview. He literally didn't know when a game of Chess was over and who won. LOL!

[louisastuto]

The word “genius” is tossed around a little too liberally sometimes, this guy is a genius.

[waynepayne]

they did nakamura so dirty with this one lmfao 4:11 come on man

[analysisg]

No doubt His Spatial Intelligence is off the charts. Not sure about his cooking skills tho.

[brianjohnston]

Magnus hates to lose, so he doesn’t. Love it

[richardyoung]

In this video he is talking about the youngest Chess Master and Chess is different than playing checkers, Chess is a thinking game and here in NYC I have watched player's playing Chess on 42nd street and on 14th street, some of these player's are also betting on their games and the idea is to get your opponents into CHECK MATE, and my dad taught me the game, in as few moves as possible, and they are playing against time, because they have clocks. My brother played chess and he was very good and he also betted for money .

[TheReasonableSkeptic-iite]

Really miss Bob Simon and other old 60 Minutes correspondents who investigated powerful jerks.

[JCbeMe]

More like Mozart is the Magnus of Music

[edrcozonoking]

“It can be more brutal than boxing” said by someone who has probably never gotten a right hook to the jaw.

[nicholasmatthews]

11:04 It was disappointing/unfair for the interviewer to ask Magnus if he was going to go crazy like Fisher. Going crazy also happens to those who are not genius.

[VampireTuesday]

I thought I was the Mozart of chess. I can beat my macintosh computer at intermediate level.

[ESan-lhdq]

I know now that im super super dumb at chess I can play well, but not even seeing the chess pieces and playing 10 at a time is like. Well your an alien bro.

[alberttate]

This is fascinating. One of the most interesting facts of this report is that they found a McDonald’s with a working ice cream machine.

[DAn̈naHawkinsHensley-qx]

When the abacus was released the abacus was considered a great innovative technology the abacus is still used in the chemistry formula the one formula and it's the only mathematical computer technology that could be used when the chemistry formula the One formula was formula and compiled

[rahulnath]

comparing magnus to eli manning is an insult to magnus

[Chris-gmhk]

What is so bizarre is he doesn't even think. He just knows.

[federalagenciesarecourtesans]

Try moving two pieces at a time instead of one.

[BroqHans]

1:57 looking up the word 'smug' in a dictionary.

[philipmorgan]

To win all those games without even looking at the board.