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The 17-year-old chess player Magnus Carlsen appears to spend his time after school much as any
typical teenage boy would. He vanishes to his small, sparsely furnished bedroom at the top of a yellow
clapboard house in this suburb of Oslo and settles in front of the computer. "Maybe I spend too much
time chatting with people," he said with a smile. When he is chatting, Magnus is also playing chess.
His online practice sessions have helped propel him to No. 6 in the official world rankings.
While Magnus is aware that he is earning a reputation as the future of chess, he does not show it.
In person he is a bit shy, speaks softly and tends to avoid eye contact. He deflects comparisons with
the best players. His modesty may not be exactly false. He is not the only chess prodigy to have
emerged in recent years.
Modern players - aided by powerful computers used for training, access to databases of games
stretching back hundreds of years and unlimited opponents online - have gained the coveted
grandmaster status at much younger ages than in the past. While Magnus earned the title at 13, over
the last 17 years another dozen players have broken the record set 40 years ago by Bobby Fischer, the
U.S. champion, who became a grandmaster at 15.
But Magnus stands out for more than just his age. His style of play is unusual. Since he began
playing at the age of 8, he has favoured tactically complicated positions, creating situations in which
he is comfortable, and his opponents, even the best ones, often wilt. He said that sometimes during
games he loses his concentration, but then he silently scolds himself, saying: "You are not going to
lose this game like an idiot. Try to pull yourself together."
Stories of chess prodigies often begin with a eureka moment when the child discovered the game
or displayed some hidden talent for it. Magnus's interest can be traced to competition with his sister
Ellen. It was after Ellen had begun to play seriously that Magnus started learning the game, mostly
because he wanted to beat her and when he was 8, he managed to do so. After that he began playing
regularly in tournaments, and his progress was, by chess measures, spectacular. A year after playing
his first tournament against children of his own age, he was competing against adults and beating
them.
Among the world's top players, another thing that sets Magnus Carlsen apart is that he is still a
student, though "he is not really interested in school," his father said.
At the College for Elite Sport, the school he attends, the chess instructor said he has to be careful
with Magnus. "He is not very disciplined," he said. "But he is such a great talent. Now my main task is
not to destroy it."
As the students milled around after class one day, Magnus was asked if he was learning much
from school. "No", he said, but "I'm certainly enjoying myself."

1. Mi Magnus Carlsen legjobb eredménye a szöveg szerint, és hogyan érte el? 2 pont
2. Milyen a személyisége? 4 pont
3. Hogyan gyakorolnak a modern sakkozók? 3 pont
4. Mi jellemzi Carlsen szokatlan játékstílusát, és ő mit mond erről? 4 pont
5. Mikor kezdett el versenyezni és hogyan alakult a karrierje? 3 pont
6. Hogyan nyilatkozott róla az edzője? 4 pont