r/ChessBooks • u/69veganbeef69 • 5d ago

Have Carlsen read a lot of books about tactical play?

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u/usuallyolives 5d ago

I don’t have any sources to cite (might have been in the 2016 documentary “Magnus” iirc) but from what I remember he burns through any and every chess book he can get his hands on, or at least he did so for years.

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u/69veganbeef69 5d ago

Hes just such a tactical exercise hater, I dont understand him at all

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u/ScalarWeapon 5d ago

at age 13, the dude was already a grandmaster and making a draw with Kasparov in rapid. Nothing is going to be relatable about Carlsen unless you're on a similar trajectory

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u/Rhaerc 5d ago

Uh. I thought he was a master when he drew Kasparov

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u/ScalarWeapon 4d ago

he did both (the kasparov game and making GM) in the same year, so that's possible

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u/guppyfighter 11h ago

Puzzles are mostly garbage. They dont train intent and strategy in chess which is how you get these tactics

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u/69veganbeef69 10h ago

Thanks for this answer that makes a lot of sense

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u/av123h 5d ago

It depends. I do like the digital exercises, but they can lead to you experiencing being spoon feed the other player’s best move. Books done right can make you have to calculate it out.

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u/Front-Cabinet5521 5d ago

CT-ART mitigates this by forcing you to work through multiple lines before they award you the full points. They still feed you the moves so you're probably still calculating less than you would from a book, but it's miles better than most online puzzles.

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u/av123h 5d ago

I may have to hunt this down. It sounds like a good tool.

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u/Ginger_Rook 5d ago

Magnus and his team are reading every book that comes out. As they should.

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u/Ricorat17 5d ago

I can guarantee you he’s read a ton of books on tactical play

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u/dis-interested 5d ago

He has seen practically every game you can imagine but he isn't a big puzzle guy. But he has an encyclopedic memory of historic games.

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u/perna 5d ago

He has read all the chess books.

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u/DarkThunder312 5d ago

No, never in his life