Definitely not impressed with Joseff Thomas, visited his website, that Richard linked to, no mention of chess there, so he has not understood how chess has enormous cultural value, in terms of teaching the very young, the value of semiotics.Richard James wrote:Magnus Carlsen is the Justin Bieber of chess according to this.
I guess he was good as a youngster, then he discovered when he played the big boys, that he was not half as good as he thought he was, hence no mention of chess on his website, but then the BBC rang him, and he thought hooray I'm a media hero, so he put a tie on quick and headed for his career, as the next Michael Portillo and to be able to stick his snout in the BBC trough and slurp up all those big houses and sexy cars.