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Arda Guler – 100 percent pass accuracy and chess

Sergio — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:18:48 +0000

Just last weekend Real Madrid’s top offensive midfielder Arda Guler achieved 100% pass accuracy vs Celta. Guler shone bright across the 90 minutes on Sunday, opening the scoring courtesy of a brilliant left-footed strike, before laying on an equally brilliant assist for Kylian Mbappe.

Thanks to Sabopasha, now we know the secret of Guler! He masters his strategy on the field with chess!

More: Ronaldo and Messi play chess / Carlsen chooses Messi over Ronaldo (VIDEO) / Real Madrid hosts the chess legend Judit Polgar #TweetOftheDay / IM David Larino playing chess in the museum of Real Madrid / Carlsen celebrated his 23rd birthday with 68,000 people at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium

Arda Güler satranç oynarken fotoğraf paylaştı pic.twitter.com/1iJBlpLJId
— Sabri Can Onay Yontar (@sabopasha) May 6, 2025

Throwback: World Champion Magnus Carlsen is a long time Real Madrid fan. He has multiple interactions with the club, including the time when he celebrated his 23rd birthday with 68,000 people at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium as he took a ceremonial kick-off in the La Liga match between Real Madrid and Valladolid.

Carlsen chooses Messi over Ronaldo (VIDEO)

Sergio — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 13:03:51 +0000

World Champion Magnus Carlsen is a long time Real Madrid fan. He has multiple interactions with the club, including the time when he celebrated his 23rd birthday with 68,000 people at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium as he took a ceremonial kick-off in the La Liga match between Real Madrid and Valladolid.

In a podcast talk with Lex Fridman from this August 27th, titled “Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time,” Magnus reveals the impossible for any hardliner fan of Real Madrid. Carlsen chooses Messi ahead of Ronaldo for the greatest of all time football players.

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“I think it’s pretty hard to make a case for anybody else than Messi for his all-round game,” said Carlsén. “My Real Madrid fandom sort of predates the Ronaldo era – the second Ronaldo, not the first one [Ronaldo Nazario]. I always liked Ronaldo but I always kind of thought that Messi was better. I went to quite a number of Madrid games and they’ve always been super helpful to me down there,” says Carlsen. “The only thing is that they were going to do an interview and they were going to ask me who my favourite player was. I said somebody else, I think it was Isco at that point, and they were like: ‘Okay, take two, now you say Ronaldo’. So for them, it was very important, but it wasn’t that huge to me.”

More from Real Madrid: Real Madrid hosts the chess legend Judit Polgar #TweetOftheDay / IM David Larino playing chess in the museum of Real Madrid

Topics from Lex Fridman’s talk with Carlsen

0:00 – Introduction
0:51 – Greatest soccer player of all time
7:57 – Magnus’s approach to chess
17:10 – Game 6 of the 2021 World Chess Championship
21:12 – Chess openings
33:35 – Chess960: Fischer random chess
38:37 – Chess variants
41:22 – Elo Rating
49:48 – World Chess Championship
1:14:00 – Losing
1:21:22 – Day in the life
1:28:12 – Drunk chess
1:32:43 – Chess training
1:40:37 – Garry Kasparov
1:49:54 – Greatest chess player of all time
2:03:06 – Advice for chess players
2:04:49 – Chess YouTubers
2:08:20 – Henrik Carlsen
2:13:55 – Lessons for life
2:17:19 – Queen’s Gambit
2:19:10 – Poker
2:25:24 – Loneliness
2:28:45 – How does the knight move?

Real Madrid hosts the chess legend Judit Polgar #TweetOftheDay

nikita — Fri, 13 May 2022 21:11:46 +0000

GM Judit Polgar, the best female chess player of all times, yesterday paid a visit to the Real Madrid home stadium Santiago Bernabéu. The President of Real Madrid CF, Florentino Perez, hosted the chess legend presenting her the Real Madrid shirt holding her name. Judit Polgar later followed the La Liga match between Real Madrid and Levante together with 38000 visitors, enjoying the hometeam’s victory of 6-0.

Giving Florentino Pérez a hint that chess has value and a place at @realmadrid too.?
I was honored to be the guest of "Los Blancos" and meet the president and legendary players eg. Roberto Carlos.#chessconnectsus #realmadrid pic.twitter.com/GBBnsZJ7LG
— Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar) May 13, 2022

Magnus Carlsen opened Real Madrid match

Goran — Sun, 01 Dec 2013 08:06:18 +0000

World Champion Magnus Carlsen celebrated his 23rd birthday with 68,000 people at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium as he took a ceremonial kick-off in the La Liga match between Real Madrid and Valladolid.

Real Madrid CF President Florentino Pérez invited Carlsen to be the special guest of the match and presented him with a shirt and engraved watch as birthday gifts.

Realmadrid.com notes that Carlsen “received an ovation from the Bernabéu after winning the title by beating Viswanathan Anand, who is also a Real Madrid supporter”.

Real Madrid proceeded to beat Valladolid 4-0, with Gareth Bale scoring his first hat-trick in the club.

Watch the video on youtube

Magnus Carlsen ceremonial kick-off in the match Real Madrid-Valladolid

Florentino Pérez and Magnus Carlsen

Photos by Ángel Martínez