While these words are written, the Norwegian world champion "Magnus Carlsen" is moving like a human tank to score a heavy advancement against the Russian "Jan Nebomaini" in the World Chess Championship held in Dubai, the difference to the difference to three points is very difficult for the latter to compensate for it.However, it is noticeable that from the seventh match specifically, it was more related to the mistakes of NebomaIt is more like a solid, calm, elegant snowy wall, slowly and confident.
In this report, Christopher Bergland, a former athlete and writer in the scope of science in the magazine "Siksi Todai", recounts the reasons that give Carlson these advantages, and it is not related to the chess game itself as much as it is related to Carlson's relationship with himself, his way of dealing with chess and everything else inHis life, which is a way we can - fortunately - also apply it in our lives.
Chess can be a metaphor for our daily life.In November 2009, the Norwegian Magnus Karlsen, the eighteen -year -old, became the youngest chess player to win first in the history of the game.Carlson has proven that achieving success is not complicated, and it depends only on the nature of the emergence and some of the daily habits that we adhere to, and the greatest evidence for this is the emergence of Karlsen, his daily customs and the competitive style that he adopts.
Unlike most chess geniuses - who fully devoted himself to this game before their thirteenth birthday - Karlsen remained in school until he was seventeen years old..His parents urged him to complete his school duties, create a balanced life by wandering in the open air, identifying the arts and drinking them through his visit to the museums regularly.Carlson got acquainted with chess at a young age because of his father, but when he was younger, he preferred to practice other hobbies to entertain his time, and his parents encouraged him to explore them himself, to achieve a balance between mental exploration and physical activity that doubles the development of the child's mind and makes him flexible.
When he reached two years of age, Karlson was able to mention all the brands of the major car in Norway, and when he reached five years, the countries of the world are preserved with their flags and capitals, which pushed him to that is the healthy competitive relationship that brought him together with his older sister, and his desire to overcome them in chess.Regardless of chess, on which Carlson was trained for three to four hours a day in his childhood, he had other entertainment, including: football, skiing, and reading video books.
In his teenage, Karlson was known for his bold and offensive style, but his style later turned to become more careful by following systematic strategies, which really distinguishes Carlson today is to avoid the usual opening movements (the first transitions of the two opponents at the beginning of the role) that is easy to predict, and his inclination instead to adoptA teaser style to start the game, which makes it difficult for its opponents to confront it for their inability - simply - to predict his movements.What distinguishes him also is that - despite that - he does not occupy his mind in how to prepare for his opening transmission to the extent that other players do..
On the other hand, those distinguished openings adopted by Karlson came to him in the form of ideas that occurred on his mind while practicing the sport of running daily on the jogging machine.The link between physical activity and problem solving is something that anyone who exercises regularly tested.Being a physical fitness not only gives you physical endurance, but also increases your creativity and your ability to gain flexibility to face life difficulties.And the game of life is similar to chess, its mastery requires extensive exercises and the enjoyment of confidence and ability to adapt, in addition to physical and mental endurance.
When Karlson was asked if he believed that his appearance is confident of himself and his adoption of fake movements that may mislead the competitors, his response was: "This depends on the player's personality, perhaps if you look confident, your opponent may be shaken and fear that the correct movement will be done.".The American world champion in chess "Bobby Fischer" adopted a different view when he stated, "I do not believe in psychology, but I believe in good play, and this is the most important thing for me.".
Chess championships are one of the interesting examples of our intersection with our intellectual improvement, and this is what Karlson followed when he learned to master the chess against a strong program on the computer, relying on this on the balance between its intellectual sense and its strongness to defeat the program.Gary Kasparov, the former Carlson coach (and the most famous chess), says that his student mastery is primarily rooted in his possession "a deep, deep intuition that the computer does not possess, that Carlson has a natural feeling that guides him to the right places to move chess pieces.".
The British chess player and the great international professor "Tony Miles" once described Gary Kasparov - which many consider the greatest chess player in history - as "a monster with a thousand eyes", and what appears to be, Carlson has the same type of mental energy that Kasparov has won, when you face CarlsonThe matter is more like 1,000 eyes, but it makes you feel familiar with everything, with a cold memory that resembles an encyclopedia that includes all the movements that his opponents have adopted before, despite all of this, what is really characterizedHis strong intuition, and this feature may be associated with his daily customs that are evolved from the parts of his brain..
According to Cassbrov, Carlsen has an intuitive ability to sensitize the energy inherent in any piece when it is moved, and a strong instinct that he follows to calculate a huge number of moves that no person - or even a super computer - can count it, and its ingenuity also lies in his ability at the expense of twenty shifts that canHis opponent is to play it, and take many transitions, which is blindfolded, relying on it as he intuition when listening to the sound of the pieces..In this regard, Karlson says: "It is difficult to explain how we predict the next step, but it depends on your innerous intuition and your feeling that taking this step seems correct.".
Although chess may seem to have a game that has nothing to do with physical endurance, it actually requires an enormous amount of emotional stability and physical endurance.We can see how Carlson's creative ability to reach unimaginable situations, and his ability to endure until the game ends (especially in the conclusion of the match), is what makes his style distinctive so that it can be placed in comparison with the methods that many former world champions pursued.
Carlsen usually reviews his opening movements while running on the running machine, so practicing this sport keeps his mind awake and breaks him with high physical fitness, and this is what Carlson describes by saying: "These long tournaments and matches are very fatty, especially at the end of it.".He also once reported to the American news agency "Associated Press": "If you are in good physical condition, and you can maintain your focus, you will be the person who takes advantage of the mistakes of his opponents.".
With the end of the championships, we discover that you are the younger players who usually enjoy these features, so other players are forced to seek to keep them in keeping their physical fitness as well, the more we get older, the more important to preserve our physical fitness to gain a competitive spirit that can harmonize with a very competitive world.Karlson pours his focus on the middle and final stage* in the game, while avoiding excessive thinking in the opening stage unlike most players, commenting: "The opening does not occupy me a lot, it may attract a little my focus, but it is not my primary goal to win as the rest of the players consider it,Rather, my goal is to make sure that I get a strong defensive situation, and then the real battle will start in the two stages, medium and final..
Carlson's ingenuity was described at the end of the match as one of the greatest methods in history.The English chess player and the great teacher "Jonathan Spieman" analyzed the recent transfers adopted by Karlson at the end of the play in the classic London Championship in 2012, and described his steadfastness to the final stage and his ability to endure the name "The Effect of Carlsen", highlighting the approach that the Norwegian adopted while playingBy saying: "That mix between his skills, besides his no less important reputation, is the main reason for pushing his opponents to make mistakes.Carlson leaves a impression about his ability to continue playing calmly and systematically forever, and perhaps most importantly all is his ability to play without fear, and this makes him a monster that fades in front of him many competitors..
The high endurance strategy for Carlson succeeded, and it was successful.In this regard, Vladimir Karamenik, the former world champion, said during an interview in 2012 in the New Chess magazine, saying: "Carlson's success is due to his good health and physical condition, and his ability to avoid psychological slips that most of the most may happenPlayers, and this ability enables him to maintain a high level of playing during matches that require a long time, while the energy levels of others decrease..
In 2013, Carlsen exceeded the record that Kasparov reached, achieving the highest number ever in the rankings of the International Chess Federation "FIDE" (the World Chess Organization that organizes all the championships held in most regions of the world).
Ultimately, we have to realize that the game of life is similar to any competitive sport, as daily physical and intellectual challenges enhance all parts of the brain, and gives you time to spend time daily in exercising all your physical and intellectual muscles an important advantage, and even increases your endurance and gain speed in performance, and is considered to be preparedAll of these skills are necessary to achieve your best on and outside the stadium.
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*Chess match can be divided into three stages: The first is the opening "Opening", which is the way the match begins and moves your pieces with an integrated specific pattern, then the mid -match stage is followed by "Middlegame", then the end of the match "Endgame".
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This article is translated from Psychology today and does not necessarily express the field of Maidan.
Translation: Sumaya Zahir.
