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andrew writes "Magnus Carlsen, arguably the best chess player ever, has made a new chess app available on iTunes. PlayMagnus claims to be able to mimic the play of Magnus at different ages from age 5 to his current world championship strength at 23 years old. This is made possible by use of a customized chess engine built on thousands of different positions from his games.

From Reuters article:

So what is it like for Carlsen to play against his younger self?

"He is really tricky," the champion said. "Even Magnus at 11 years old was a very gifted tactician. A while ago I played as a test Magnus (aged) 14. I outplayed him at some point positionally. And just boom, boom, he tricked me tactically.

"But he makes mistakes as well, so I just have to be patient."

Magnus also plans to eventually add the functionality of on-line chess games against other app users, a service as old as the Internet, putting his app in direct competition with long established chess servers like FICS and ICC."

1. "Magnus Carlsen" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen
2. "chess app" - https://itunes.apple.com/app/play-magnus/id808138395?mt=8
3. "PlayMagnus" - http://magnuscarlsen.com/playmagnus
4. "Reuters article" - http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/02/25/norway-chess-carlsen-idINDEEA1O0IO20140225
5. "service as old as the Internet" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_chess_server#History
6. "FICS" - http://www.freechess.org/
7. "ICC" - http://www.chessclub.com/

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