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OUTLINE:

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(00:00) – Introduction

(08:34) – Greatest soccer player of all time

(15:40) – Magnus’s approach to chess

(24:53) – Game 6 of the 2021 World Chess Championship

(28:54) – Chess openings

(46:19) – Chess variants

(49:04) – Elo Rating

(57:31) – World Chess Championship

(1:21:42) – Losing

(1:29:04) – Day in the life

(1:35:55) – Drunk chess

(1:40:26) – Chess training

(1:48:20) – Garry Kasparov

(1:57:37) – Greatest chess player of all time

(2:10:48) – Advice for chess players

(2:12:32) – Chess YouTubers

(2:16:03) – Henrik Carlsen

(2:21:38) – Lessons for life

(2:25:02) – Queen’s Gambit

(2:26:53) – Poker

(2:33:06) – Loneliness

(2:36:28) – How does the knight move?