please welcome magnus carlsen. [cheering and applause] magnus, thank you so much for coming on.en, we are not so different, you and i. [laughter] >> no. >> stephen: we are both geniuses, number one in our field and both very young. [laughter] >> i can see that. >> stephen: now, you are the third youngest grand master of all time. and you were the youngest, age 19, the youngest number-one ranked chess player in the world. [cheering and applause] hold were you when you started playing? >> i was about eight. >> stephen: eight years old. and by the time you were 13, you were a grand master. what was the affinity you had for chess from the beginning? >> i don't know. i just started playing, and i... well, i liked the game, so i started studying a lot. >> stephen: but a lot of people like the game. what do you see when you look at a chessboard? are you seeing like little wooden pieces on a board, or are you seeing some sort of fourth-dimensional game? do the pieces turn to you and say, "move me, magnus?" do you see the board differently than a normal, average, not-genius? >> not reall