Magnus Carlsen interview: the world chess champion prepares to take on Fabiano Caruana

 The question I have for him is whether he ever feels sorry for his opponents. He pretends to misunderstand it. We had been talking about his brief career as an under-11 ski-jumper back home in Norway (“A couple of bad falls, but nothing terrible”). Now he thinks for a moment about this question of pity and says, “No, not really. If my opponent has broken his legs, maybe …”