How to Beat Magnus Carlsen at Chess Every Single Time

I've been playing chess for many years and have never beaten Magnus Carlsen let alone seen him. He's the world champion and has an ELO rating of 2882, which makes him the highest rated player in history. The average ELO rating of a chess player is around 1000 but I'm only rated at 1600 or so. So how can I beat him? Well, there's no secret formula that will give you guaranteed victory over anyone, but here are some tips:

Magnus Carlsen is the current world chess champion.

When you play chess, you may notice that Magnus Carlsen is the highest rated player in history. His ELO rating is 2882. He's been world champion since 2013 and has held that title for some time now.

For all intents and purposes, he's invincible at the board. But don't worry—you don't have to be a chess grandmaster or even a seasoned player to beat Magnus Carlsen at Chess Every Single Time!

The average ELO rating of a chess player is around 1000.

The average ELO rating of a chess player is around 1000. The average ELO rating of a chess engine is around 2200. In other words, the difference between an average human and an extremely powerful computer is about 1900 points on the Elo scale. 

If you can't beat Magnus Carlsen every single time with your own brain, how are you going to do it with someone else's?

A chess engine has no knowledge of the game of chess, it simply evaluates every possible move for both players and then picks the one with most likely win for the side to move.

A chess engine has no knowledge of the game of chess, it simply evaluates every possible move for both players and then picks the one with most likely win for the side to move. It does this by evaluating each possible move based on its value in relation to any major advantage that might be gained by making it (such as material advantage, space advantage etc). However these are not things that an engine can evaluate well due to its lack of experience in human play. For example if you were playing against Magnus Carlsen and he chooses a move that would give him a very small material advantage over you, but would allow him to develop his pieces faster than yours - an engine would not understand that this was also a good idea because it doesn't understand why developing your pieces faster is advantageous (or at least not significantly more so than having more material).

If you wanted to play like a supercomputer, you would need to memorize all of your moves before you sat down at the board.

If you wanted to play like a supercomputer, you would need to memorize all of your moves before you sat down at the board. You would also need to remember your opponent's moves and have access to a database that contained every possible position on the chessboard. Finally, knowing what move was best for each position would be essential in order to win every game.

These are obviously impossible requirements for humans—but computers can do this by using sophisticated algorithms that take into account all possible outcomes when making a decision in real time during gameplay.

All of these moves would be evaluated by you as if you were a chess engine.

In order to beat Magnus Carlsen at chess every time, you need to play like a chess engine. You need to think like a computer and consider the same factors that would be considered by a strong computer program when analyzing positions, evaluating moves and games, etc.

The first step is understanding what a chess engine is. Chess engines are programs that evaluate positions based on their evaluation function. This function is applied to each move in the position and returns an evaluation number which represents how good or bad that move is compared with other possible moves available at the time (note: this can vary depending on the opening).

The only way to beat Carlsen (or any top grandmaster) consistently is to know what moves he will make before he makes them!

While it's true that Carlsen is the world's best chess player, this title doesn't mean he's invincible. The only way to beat him (or any top grandmaster) consistently is to know what moves he will make before he makes them! You must anticipate and predict his every move so that you can counter every threat before it becomes a problem for you. If both players have perfect foresight, then this game will end in a draw because neither player has any advantage over the other.

But how do you gain such knowledge? How can we possibly predict someone else's actions when they're not even sure themselves? The answer is simple: You don't need to know what your opponent is going to do; all that matters is knowing how your own actions will affect them! Once you understand how their decisions are affected by yours, then everything else falls into place naturally.

Memorize all possible moves for both yourself and your opponent before sitting down at the board!

In a recent interview at Lex Fridman podcast, Magnus Carlsen mentioned that although he doesn’t use chess engines like Leela and Stockfish, his team does. Thus we already get an insight as the importance of a good coach, trainer, team management and to work as a whole cohesive training like Gary Kasparov did back in the days during Cold War against USSR. This is not to discount the fact there is still a lot of sweat of hard training required in preparation and memorization and the team or the counsel only works with crème de la crème of the prodigies. Lex Fridman at one point mentioned that although counterintuitive, sometimes the optimal strategy is to sacrifice the optimal move and come up with a lesser-optimal move and still suffocate the opponent with slight gain of advantage. Carlsen also agreed that in most cases that is what the top teams do as all the optimal moves have been evaluated ad infinitum… quite literally! 

So what should you do to defeat Carlsen every single time before you even meet him? Memorize all possible moves for both yourself and your opponent before sitting down at the board! This may sound counter-intuitive, but it's amazing how much time you can save by simply knowing what your opponent can do on their next turn. This saves you from having to think about all the different possibilities of what they could do (which will slow you down) and allows you to focus on thinking about your own moves in advance (which will make them faster).

Endgame thoughts

So what does this mean for us? It means that if you want to beat Magnus Carlsen at chess every single time, then you have to know his moves before he makes them. This is a daunting task, but with enough practice it can be done. For example, if you know that Carlsen will move his Queen’s Pawn in the opening, then all you need to do is memorize all possible moves for both yourself and your opponent before sitting down at the board!