Who called Carlsen "psycho"?

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He was mentioned in the Financial Times:

November 24, 2014 6:54 pm

Carlsen’s chess victory a triumph for man over supercomputer

Adam Thomson, Paris

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/fac73d10-73fa-11e4-82a6-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3KaEgmW1y

Mr Carlsen’s relentlessly accurate positional style means that his games are often longer than those of other players. During last week’s match, he fought Mr Anand for six and a half hours during one, ultimately drawn encounter as he looked for tiny chances in a 122-move game – the second-longest ever played in a world championship.

That relentless display led one member of the chess.com playing site to marvel after the game: “Carlsen is psycho”.

He also rarely offers otherwise frequent draws, preferring instead to play on and on as he grinds his opponents down mentally and physically. Among other things, Mr Carlsen specialises in turning a theoretically drawn position into a win, pressing his rival to make a mistake he can seize on.

Just how long the Carlsen phenomenon will continue may depend as much as anything on how motivated he can remain at the top. For now, though, it seems he could be there for a while.

As Christof Sielecki, a German international master whose Chessexplained YouTube channel has earned him a growing online following, says: “He will set his opponent 50 problems in a game. No sooner have you solved one of them, he presents you with another.”

 

 
kayak21

Anthony Perkins was Psycho. Undecided

trysts

Magnus Carlsen thinks he's his own mother?

kayak21

Maybe he is. I can't say because I don't know his mother.

trysts

Laughing

kayak21

I only posted to get Panda's thread going. :)

EricFleet

I demand that my GM opponents offer me a draw on the first move as it is a theoretical draw and they should realize it.

kayak21

Sounds reasonable. 

Doggy_Style
kayak21 wrote:

I only posted to get Panda's thread going. :)

Be careful, that Panda is a psycho!

Uhohspaghettio1

Once Nakamura was +10.0 on Carlsen and Carlsen didn't resign. 

...sentimental nonsense notwithstanding it's actually not a good thing. Early signs of the type of craziness that gripped Morphy, Fischer and even Kasparov to an extent. 

chessredpanda
Doggy_Style wrote:
kayak21 wrote:

I only posted to get Panda's thread going. :)

Be careful, that Panda is a psycho!

 

You psycho!!!!So offensive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Doggy_Style
chessredpanda wrote:
Doggy_Style wrote:
kayak21 wrote:

I only posted to get Panda's thread going. :)

Be careful, that Panda is a psycho!

 

You psycho! So offensive!

I'll keep those (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) until you learn some proportionality.

kco

The only person who qualify for the titled "psycho" is pdela.

heinzie

Perhaps just in the chat, not in the forums?

Pulpofeira

I wouldn't say pdela is a psycho. My only complain is he forces me to spend too much time in the forums in order to mantain the ratio of Spanish insanity in a healthly 50%.

MuhammadAreez10

Nah Pulp, I've seen you more often. Plus, you want to just keep it a mere 50%?

ghostofmaroczy
kco awarded a title:

The only person who qualify for the titled "psycho" is pdela.

What a totally inappropriate attack on pdela.

Shame on you, kco.

pdela clearly has none of the psychotic characteristics of Magnus Carlsen.

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#allpraisebetohypnotoad

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Pre_VizsIa

probably one of the indian anand fans called him that, to be honest...

kco
ghostofmaroczy wrote:
kco awarded a title:

The only person who qualify for the titled "psycho" is pdela.

What a totally inappropriate attack on pdela.

Shame on you, kco.

pdela clearly has none of the psychotic characteristics of Magnus Carlsen.

#toads

#allpraisebetohypnotoad

#allpraisebetohypnotoad

pdela and Carlsen cannot be compared.