From the Associated Press via The Seattle Times, October 25:
STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Few chess players enjoy Magnus Carlsen’s celebrity status.
A grand master at 13, refusing to play an American dogged by allegations of cheating, and venturing into the world of online chess gaming all made Norway’s Carlsen a household name.
Few chess players have produced the magical commodity that separates Norway’s Magnus Carlsen from any of his peers: celebrity.
Only legends like Russia’s Garry Kasparov and American Bobby Fischer can match his name recognition and Carlsen is arguably an even more dominant player. Last month, he beat both men to be named the International Chess Federation’s greatest ever.
But his motivation to rack up professional titles is on the wane. Carlsen, 33, now wants to leverage his fame to help turn the game he loves into a spectator sport.
“I am in a different stage in my career,” he told The Associated Press. “I am not as ambitious when it comes to professional chess. I still want to play, but I don’t necessarily have that hunger. I play for the love of the game.”
Offering a new way to interact with the game, Carlsen on Friday launched his application, Take Take Take, which will follow live games and players, explaining matches in an accessible way that, Carlsen says, is sometimes missing from streaming platforms like YouTube and Twitch. “It will be a chiller vibe,” he says....
....MUCH MORE
Previously on the Magnus channel:
Teenage Indian Chess Whiz Beats Magnus Carlsen For The Second Time
"Chess Is in Chaos Over Suspicion That a Player Cheated Against Magnus Carlsen"
Chess: Drunk Magnus Carlsen Takes Over A Lost Position, Wins
Magnus Carlsen is the Future of Norwegian Football
Empire of The Mind: Magnus Carlsen's Chess Business
Norway's World Chess Champion, Magnus Carlsen, Has Managed to Optimize ... Sitting
And on the state of Seattle - Norwegian relations:
...expose yourself as a dimwit.
From TIME:
A news tip earlier this week that reported a Confederate flag flying beneath an American flag in the Greenwood neighborhood of Seattle, Washington was discovered to be a mistake...The Seattle Times story is now ten hours old. At the time they reported the mistake Norway's Pyeongchang Medal count was 13/11/9 GSB.
...The Seattle Times received the following tip from New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Morris after she believed that she saw a Confederate flag flying in her neighborhood: “Hi. Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying in front of a house in my Greenwood neighborhood. It is at the north-east corner of 92nd and Palatine, just a block west of 92nd and Greenwood Ave N. I would love to know what this ‘means’ … but of course don’t want to knock on their door. Maybe others in the area are flying the flag? Maybe it’s a story? Thank you.”
However, a more thorough examination revealed that it was actually a Norwegian flag was flying at the house of Darold Norman Strangeland, who raised it at the start of this year’s Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea as an homage to his Norwegian-American background — his parents emigrated to the states in the mid-1950s....MORE
It is now up to 13 gold, 12 silver, 10 bronze so at least the flag-flyer, Darold Norman Stangeland is probably happy although the French nudging the Norwegian women's biathlon relay team into fourth place may have been hard on Mr. Stangeland.
Still though, the 35 total medals for Norway far outdistances second-place Germany's 25, Canada's 24 or the USA's 21.
Stangeland said his father practiced the very Norwegian profession of tugboat captain after emigrating. Here's the picture used to illustrate the original story although I'm not sure that is Mr. Stangeland's home:
