India, Aug. 11 -- Recently, Magnus Carlsen revealed that Elon Musk 'famously doesn't have the greatest respect for chess players'. The Norwegian said that he has seen the tech billionaire in person, and he understands Musk's opinion on chess as 'it is not a very complicated game'.

Carlsen spoke about Musk during an AI chess exhibition tournament, where the world No. 1 was also commentating. Carlsen also wasn't impressed by the chess abilities of some of the best general-purpose large language models like Grok 4, o3, Gemini 2.5 Pro, etc.

"Elon I've seen in person but I haven't talked to him. You know he famously doesn't have the greatest respect for chess players or the game which, to some extent, I understand because it is not a very co...