Magnus Carlsen on 60 Minutes This Weekend (Updated)
The news magazine show "60 Minutes" is one of the longest-running television shows in U.S. history, airing every Sunday night on CBS since the invention of dirt (or so it seems). 41 years ago Bobby Fischer was interviewed on the program
and this coming Sunday night they will have a piece on Magnus Carlsen. Hopefully it will be available afterwards on the web; if not, then those who can see the program and are interested will want to watch or set your DVRs or VCRs. After all, we might have to wait another 41 years until our next opportunity!
UPDATE: Macauley Peterson comments that the show will be be available online Monday after 12 a.m. ET. Who needs VCRs? (For the kids out there, that's what we used to record TV shows and watch movies back in the dark ages.)
(HTs: Brian Karen and Brian Perez-Daple)
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It'll be available online after 12 am ET, Monday, Feb 20th at http://www.60minutes.com/ and on http://www.youtube.com/user/60minutes
(I have some footage used in the program.)
[DM: Thanks!]
Dennis, 60 Minutes is very good about posting their stories online shortly after they air. Usually they post transcripts, too, for those who prefer to read the stories. The link can be found here. They already have a preview of the Carlsen story up. They call him the "Mozart of Chess". Thanks to everyone responsible for pointing this story out.
There's also already a blurb on it at CBSnews.com: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57379355/worlds-1-chess-master-relishes-his-enemys-suffering/?tag=broadcast Where Bobby said "squirm", Magnus says "suffer". It also has a link to the 9:18-long 1972 item, which has a speed game with Lewis Cohen whom I remember well.
As long as we're reminiscing about that summer 40 (huh?) years ago, I was playing in a tournament run by Bill Goichberg in Manhattan at the time (the World Open started the following year in 1973), and remember a sign Bill wrote and rushed up and posted on the door: "Bobby is on the plane!"
It is online already... 13 minutes of portrait + 4 minutes of an interview with the interviewer
Did Magnus ever play Bobby Fischer?
[DM: I never heard any story to that effect, and think I half-remember seeing Carlsen say he never met him.]
"Kasparov started slow, Magnus started getting bored!" Lol :).