⚠ My FIDE rating is ~1300. Take everything I say w/ a grain of salt 😂
I watched Carlsen’s games for the first time back in 2016 during his match w/ Karjakin.
I have been following his performance ever since and I’ve never been able to shake off the feeling, even for a second, that he is to modern chess what Dr. Lasker used to be to chess during his long chess career: “never losing his head” as Tartakower once said.
Match after match, Carlsen has proven to be a head and shoulder above his contemporaries and irrespective of the style of his opponent (aggressive, defensive, slow, fast, tactical, …) he’s always been able to pull it off no matter how tense the position/match got.
Just like Dr. Lasker, he seems to have developed an understanding of the game and style which is not well understood by his opponents.
IMO the chess world is not going to see a new “best” player, until either he loses interest in the game (like Dr. Lasker did) or a new generation of players arise and are able to challenge him beyond what he’s been through.
Perhaps Pragg or Firouzja in a decade or so w/ more experience and stronger nerves can do that?
I noticed in interviews that both Capablanca and Carlsen seem to describe a similar way of learning chess, that includes feeling the game intuitively.