>> yeah. >> and i like magnus carlsen. >> simon: you like magnus.s is now routinely taught in schools all over the world, including the united states. in some countries, it's compulsory. chess can be taught, but not genius. magnus seemed like a normal enough kid growing up outside oslo. but wait a minute-- when he was five, he could name almost all the countries in the world and their capitals and their populations. magnus's father, henrik, didn't think that was terribly unusual. >> henrik carlsen: he did have a good memory, and the ability to concentrate for hours at a time on the specific topic. and he seemed to be interested in a lot of things, new things, all the time. but i thought that was normal. >> simon: what got him into chess? sibling rivalry. his older sister started to play, so he wanted to beat her, which he did, quickly. then, he started winning tournaments. before long, he became a celebrity, one of the first norwegians to excel in a sport that did not involve snow. people lined up in shopping malls to play him. when he won, magnus s

corollas magnus. in latin it means big charles.aughter] so it's like big tony or something like that. he is a warlord effectively. so because i'm big charles, corollas magnus, a name by the way putsch if you say it for 1000 years, nonstop, it will start to sound like charlemagne. that is where we get charlemagne he comes to the system and he returns him to his authority and then some conversation takes place and we can ask oliver stone to make a movie about it. we have no factual basis, in which they discuss what to do afterwards since one can imagine an oliver stone movie in which the pope says you know chuck, i am really grateful for what you have done. is there anything you would like? corollas magnus says no, no, come on. no really, come on something. i've always wanted to be a member of the world. [laughter] so he was crowned on christmas day in the year 800 emperor of rome and then returned to our capital of the empire which has a population of little bit larger than the cato institute and that is one of the initial acts that