Magnus Carlsen
b. 1990
Practices described in interviews: playing huge numbers of games, grinding small advantages, and staying calm in long endgames.
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Domain skills
- Childhood
Memorising and reading chess books
Described early fascination with memorising facts and positions.
Train: Working Memory - 2004
Grandmaster at 13
Played a very large volume of games against strong opponents.
Train: Pattern Recognition - Style
Endgame patience
Known for converting tiny advantages over many moves.
Train: Attention & Focus - 2013–23
World Champion
Chose to stop defending the title — a documented deliberate decision.
Train: Decision Making
Essential General Skills
Transferable skills mapped to this role.
Essential General Skills
Each skill includes a lesson, worked example, assessment, real-life task, and adaptive game. Two correct answers raise the challenge; one miss lowers it.
Pattern Recognition
Name the rule before guessing the next item. Then test the rule against every item you already have.
- Look at differences between neighbours.
- Say the rule out loud.
- Check it on all items.
- Only then predict.
Find three patterns at home — tiles, a calendar, a song chorus — and describe each rule in one sentence.
- SET Daily Puzzle ↗
Find sets by colour, shape, number and shading.
- Lichess Puzzles ↗
Spot tactical patterns in chess positions.
Rule Breaker
Adaptive rule: two correct in a row raises difficulty, one miss lowers it. Accuracy so far 0%.
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