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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5:Chess players:What does it mean to play a 'beautiful' game and why do people say Magnus Carlsen's game are soulless?
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Beautiful combinations tend to be things where someone is setting up a play for a while, then pays it off all at once. The sort of thing that makes you go "Ohhhh, THAT'S what he was doing!"

Carlsen's style is very disciplined. He tends to play very safe, very methodical games, and simply wait for his opponents to make small missteps (which he can then punish them for). His games rarely allow such combinations, because he blocks that sort of setup as it happens and doesn't seek to set up combinations of his own.