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What should I ask Magnus Carlsen? - Marginal REVOLUTION

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For a likely CWT. The agreed-upon topic is the history of chess. Not Hans Niemann, not life after chess, not family life, not politics, not the young Indian players. But consider the run of chess history from say Philidor up through Magnus himself, but not including Magnus. Not quiz questions or stumpers (he is great at those), but serious questions about the history of chess and its players. What should I ask? Have no expertise in chess, so the following may be stupid, but anyway: 1. Carlsen famously quoted Fischer that Capablanca's main strength was less in the endgame than in accumulating advantages during the middle game that were visible almost only to Capablanca (and that Carlsen himself was sort of like that). Can these advantages be articulated now? Machines? 2. Fischer, Kasparov and Carlsen are the GOATS, in terms of beating everyone else. But are there others who have contributed more ideas and raised the standards of the game (but possibly not been successful owing to al

For a likely CWT. The agreed-upon topic is the history of chess. Not Hans Niemann, not life after chess, not family life, not politics, not the young Indian players. But consider the run of chess history from say Philidor up through Magnus himself, but not including Magnus. Not quiz questions or stumpers (he is great at those), but serious questions about the history of chess and its players. What should I ask? 98 Comments Facebook Twitter RSS Feed print Comments Sort by Top Sort by Recent Sort by Controversial " id="blog-comment- " data-user-vote=" " data-vote-count=" " data-vote-total=" " da

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