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Magnus Carlsen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sven Magnus en Carlsen

(Norwegian: [sn mns n
ksn
]; born 30 November 1990)
is a Norwegian chess grandmaster,
No. 1 ranked player in the world and
reigning World Chess Champion in
classical, rapid and blitz. His peak
rating is 2882, the highest in history.
A chess prodigy, Carlsen became a
Grandmaster in 2004, at the age of
13 years, 148 days, making him at
that time the second youngest
grandmaster in history, although he
has since become the third youngest.
On 1 January 2010, at the age of 19
years, 32 days, he became the
youngest chess player in history to be
ranked world No. 1. In November
2013, Carlsen defeated Viswanathan
Anand in the World Chess
Championship 2013, thus becoming
the new world chess champion. On
the May 2014 FIDE rating list,
Carlsen reached his top Elo rating of
2882,[1] the highest in history. He
successfully defended his title in
November 2014, once again
defeating Anand.
Magnus Carlsen
Carlsen in 2012
Full name
Sven Magnus en Carlsen
Country
Norway
Born
30 November 1990
Tnsberg, Vestfold, Norway
Title
Grandmaster (2004)
World Champion
2013, 2014
FIDE rating
2863
(http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?
event=1503014) (March 2015)
Peak rating
2882 (May 2014)
Carlsen was known for his attacking

No. 1 (Feb 2015)
Ranking
style as a teenager and later
(http://ratings.fide.com/toplist.phtml)
developed into a more universal
No. 1 (January 2010)
Peak ranking
player. He does not focus on opening
preparation as much as other top
players and plays a variety of openings, making it harder for opponents to prepare against him. His positional
mastery and endgame prowess have drawn comparisons to those of former world champions Jos Ral
Capablanca, Vasily Smyslov, and Anatoly Karpov.
Contents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen
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1 Childhood
2 Chess career
2.1 2004
2.2 2005
2.3 2006
2.4 2007
2.5 2008
2.6 2009
2.7 2010
2.8 2011
2.9 2012
2.10 2013
2.10.1 World Chess Championship 2013
2.10.1.1 Results
2.11 2014
2.11.1 World Chess Championship 2014
2.11.1.1 Results
2.12 2015
3 Honours
4 Playing style
5 Rating
5.1 Rating achievements
6 Head-to-head record versus selected grandmasters
7 Notable games
8 Beyond chess
9 Books and films
10 See also
11 References
11.1 Sources
12 External links
Childhood
Carlsen was born in Tnsberg, Norway, on 30 November 1990, to Sigrun en and Henrik Albert Carlsen, both
engineers (sivilingenir) by profession.[2] The family spent one year in Espoo, Finland, and then in Brussels,
Belgium, and in 1998 returned to Norway and settled in Lommedalen, Brum. They later moved to Haslum.[3]
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Carlsen showed an aptitude for intellectual challenges at a young age: at two years, he could solve 50-piece jigsaw
puzzles; at four, he enjoyed assembling Lego sets with instructions intended for children aged 1014.[4] His father
taught him to play chess at the age of 5, although he initially showed little interest in the game.[5]
The first chess book Carlsen read was Find the Plan by Bent Larsen,[6]
and his first book on openings was Eduard Gufeld's The Complete
Dragon.[7] Carlsen developed his early chess skills by playing alone for
hours at a timemoving the pieces around the chessboard, searching for
combinations, and replaying games and positions shown to him by his
father. Simen Agdestein emphasises Carlsen's extreme memory, claiming
that he was able to recall the areas, population numbers, flags and
capitals of all the countries in the world by the age of five. Later, Carlsen
had memorised the areas, population numbers, coat-of-arms and
administrative centres of "virtually all" Norwegian municipalities.[8]
Carlsen participated in his first tournamentthe youngest division of the
1999 Norwegian Chess Championshipat the age of 8 years and 7
months, scoring 6/11.[9]
Carlsen was later coached at the Norwegian College of Elite Sport by
Carlsen giving a simultaneous

exhibition in Molde in July 2004
the country's top player, Grandmaster (GM) Simen Agdestein,[10] who in

turn cites Norwegian football manager and Egil "Drillo" Olsen as a key inspiration for his coaching strategy.[2] In
2000, Agdestein introduced Carlsen to Torbjrn Ringdal Hansen, an International Master (IM) and former
Norwegian junior champion, as Ringdal served a one-year siviltjeneste at the college. Over the course of this year,
Carlsen's rating rose from 904 in June 2000, to 1907. Carlsen's breakthrough occurred in the Norwegian junior
teams championship in September 2000, where Carlsen scored 3/5 against the top junior players of the country,
and a performance rating (PR) of about 2000.[11] Apart from chess, which Carlsen studied about three to four
hours a day, his favourite pastimes included football, skiing, and reading Donald Duck comics.[12] Carlsen also
practiced ski jumping until the age of ten. His personal best is 21 metres.[13]
From autumn 2000 to the end of 2002, Carlsen played almost 300 rated tournament games, as well as several blitz
tournaments, and participated in other minor events.[14] After this, he obtained three IM norms in relatively quick
succession; his first was at the January 2003 Gausdal Troll Masters (score 7/10, 2345 PR), the second was at the
June 2003 Salongernas IM-tournament in Stockholm (6/9, 2470 PR), and the third and final IM norm was
obtained at the July 2003 Politiken Cup in Copenhagen (8/11, 2503 PR). He was officially awarded the IM title on
20 August 2003.[15] After finishing primary school, Carlsen took a year off to participate in international chess
tournaments held in Europe during the fall season of 2003, returning to complete secondary education at a sports
school.[16][17] During the year away from school, he finished in a tie for third in the European Under-14 Boys
Championship.[18]
Chess career
2004
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Carlsen made headlines after his victory in the C group at the Corus
chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Carlsen obtained a score of
10/13, losing just one game (against the highest-rated player of the
C group, Duko Pavasovi).[19] As a result of the victory, he earned
his first GM norm, and achieved a PR of 2702. Particularly notable
was his win over Sipke Ernst in the penultimate round, when Carlsen
sacrificed material to give mate in just 29 moves.[20] The first 23
moves in that game had already been played in another game
Almagro LlanasGustafsson, Madrid 2003 (which ended in a draw)
but Carlsen's over-the-board novelty immediately led to a winning
position. Carlsen's victory in the C group qualified him to play in the
B group in 2005, and it led Lubomir Kavalek, writing for the
Washington Post, to give him the title "Mozart of chess". Agdestein
said that Carlsen had an excellent memory and played an unusually
wide range of openings.[21] Carlsen's prowess caught the attention of
Microsoft, which became his sponsor.[22]
Carlsen vs. Ernst, 2004

a
1
a
Position after 17...c5. The game

continued 18.Ng6 fxg6 19.Qxe6+ Kh8
20.hxg6 Ng8 21.Bxh6 gxh6 22.Rxh6+
Nxh6 23.Qxe7 Nf7 24.gxf7 Kg7 25.Rd3
Rd6 26.Rg3+ Rg6 27.Qe5+ Kxf7 28.Qf5+
Rf6 29.Qd7#
Carlsen obtained his second GM norm in the Moscow Aeroflot

Open in February. On 17 March, in a blitz chess tournament in
Reykjavk, Iceland, Carlsen defeated former World Champion
Anatoly Karpov. The blitz tournament was a preliminary event
leading up to a rapid knockout tournament beginning the next day. In
that event, Carlsen was paired with Garry Kasparov, then the toprated player in the world. Carlsen achieved a draw in their first game and lost the second one, and was thus
knocked out of the tournament.[23]
In the sixth Dubai Open Chess Championship, held 1828 April, Carlsen obtained his third and final GM norm.
This caused him to become the world's youngest GM at the time, as well as the third-youngest GM in history (after
Sergey Karjakin, who earned the title at the age of 12 years and 7 months[24] and Parimarjan Negi).[25] Carlsen
played in the FIDE World Chess Championship, thus becoming the youngest player ever to participate in one, but
was knocked out in the first round by Levon Aronian.[26]
In July, Carlsen and Berge stenstad (then the reigning Norwegian champion) tied for first in the Norwegian Chess
Championship, each scoring 7/9. A two-game match between them was arranged to decide the title. Both games
were drawn, which left stenstad the champion because he had superior tiebreaks in the tournament.[27]
2005
In the Smartfish Chess Masters event at the Drammen International Chess Festival 200405, Carlsen defeated
Alexei Shirov, then ranked No. 10[28] in the world, as well as the co-winner of the tournament.[29] In the semifinals
of the Ciudad de Len rapid chess tournament in June, Carlsen played a four-game match against Viswanathan
Anand, who was ranked No. 2 in the world at the time and had won the 2003 World Rapid Chess
Championship.[30] Anand won 31.[31]
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In the Norwegian Chess Championship, Carlsen again finished in shared first place, this time with his mentor Simen
Agdestein. A playoff between them was played between 7 and 10 November. This time, Carlsen had the better
tiebreaks, but the rule giving the title to the player with better tiebreak scores in the event of a 11 draw had been
revoked previously. The match was closely foughtAgdestein won the first game, Carlsen the secondso the
match went into a series of two-game rapid matches until there was a winner. Carlsen won the first rapid game,
Agdestein the second. Then followed three draws until Agdestein won the championship title with a victory in the
sixth rapid game.[32]
At the end of 2005, Carlsen participated at the Chess World Cup in
Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. In the knockout tournament, he upset the
44th-ranked Zurab Azmaiparashvili in round one, and proceeded to
defeat Farrukh Amonatov and Ivan Cheparinov to reach the round of 16.
There, Carlsen lost to Evgeny Bareev,[33] but then won against Jol
Lautier and Vladimir Malakhov before losing again to Gata Kamsky.
Thus, Carlsen finished in tenth place and became the youngest player to
be an official World Championship Candidate.[34] In October, he took
first place at the Arnold Eikrem Memorial in Gausdal with a score 8/9
and a PR of 2792.[35]
Carlsen in Warsaw, 2005
2006
Carlsen qualified for a place in the Corus B group due to his first place finish in Corus group C in 2004. His shared
first place with Alexander Motylev with 9/13 (+61=6) qualified him to play in the Corus group A in 2007.[36]
At the traditional international 'Bosna' tournament in Sarajevo 2006, Carlsen shared first place with Liviu-Dieter
Nisipeanu (who won on tiebreak evaluation) and Vladimir Malakhov; this could be regarded as Carlsen's first A
elite tournament win, although it was not a clear first.[37]
Carlsen was close to winning the 2006 Norwegian Chess Championship outright, but a last-round loss to Berge
stenstad dropped him into another tie for first place with Agdestein. It also prevented Carlsen from beating
Agdestein's record as the youngest Norwegian champion ever.[38] Nonetheless, in the playoff held from 1921
September, Carlsen won 31. After two draws at standard time controls, Carlsen won both rapid games in round
two, securing his first Norwegian championship win.[39]
Carlsen won the Glitnir Blitz Tournament[40] in Iceland. He achieved a 20 win over Viswanathan Anand in the
semifinals and achieved the same score in the finals.[41] He scored 6/8 in the 37th Chess Olympiad and achieved a
PR of 2820.[42]
In the Midnight Sun Chess Tournament, Carlsen finished second behind Sergei Shipov.[43] In the Biel Grandmaster
Tournament, he placed second, beating the tournament winner Alexander Morozevich twice.[44]
In the NH Chess Tournament held in Amsterdam in August, Carlsen participated in an "Experience" vs. "Rising
Stars" Scheveningen team match. The "Rising Stars" won the match 2822, with Carlsen achieving the best
individual score for the Rising Stars team (6/10) and a 2700 PR, thus winning the right to participate in the 2007
Melody Amber tournament.[45]
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With a score of 7/15, Carlsen placed 8th out of 16 participants at the World Blitz Championship in Rishon
LeZion, Israel.[46] In the rapid chess tournament Rencontres nationales et internationales d'checs in Cap
d'Agde, France, he reached the semifinal, losing there to Sergey Karjakin.[47] In November, Carlsen achieved a
shared 8th place of 10 participants in the Mikhail Tal Memorial in Moscow with two losses and seven draws. He
finished ninth in a group of 18 participants in the associated blitz tournament, which was won by Anand.[48]
2007
Playing in the top group of the Corus chess tournament for the first time,
Carlsen placed last with nine draws and four losses, scoring 4/13.[49]
In the prestigious Linares chess tournament, Carlsen played against the
following top-rated players: Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter
Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, and Vassily
Ivanchuk. Despite being rated significantly lower than any of them, he
finished in second place on tiebreaks with 7/14, having scored four
wins, seven draws and three losses, and achieving a PR of 2778.[50]
Carlsen playing Levon Aronian at
Carlsen played for the first time in the Melody Amber blind and rapid
Linares 2007
chess tournament in Monte Carlo in March. In the 11 rounds, he
achieved eight draws and three losses in the blindfold games, as well as
three wins, seven draws and one loss in the rapid games. This resulted in a shared ninth place in the blindfold,
shared second place in the rapid (behind Anand), and a shared eighth place in the overall tournament.[51]
In May and June, he participated in the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007,
facing Levon Aronian in a six-game match at standard time controls, which Carlsen drew (+22=2) by coming
from behind twice. The four-game rapid playoff was drawn as well (+11=2), with Carlsen winning the last game
to stay in the match. Eventually, Aronian eliminated Carlsen from the tournament after winning both tiebreak blitz
games.[52]
In July and August, Carlsen won the Biel Grandmaster Tournament with a 6/10 record and a PR of 2753. His
score was matched by Alexander Onischuk and they played a match to break the tie. After drawing two rapid and
two blitz games, Carlsen won the armageddon game.[53] Immediately after the Biel tournament, Carlsen entered the
open Arctic Chess Challenge in Troms, but his fourth place result with +5=4 was a slight underperformance in
terms of rating. In the first round, Carlsen, surprisingly, conceded a draw to his classmate Brede Hagen (rated
2034)[54] after having a lost position at one point.[55] A game which attracted some attention was his sixth-round
win over his father, Henrik Carlsen.[56]
Carlsen reached the semifinal round of the World Chess Cup in December, after defeating Michael Adams in the
round of 16 and Ivan Cheparinov in the quarterfinals. In the semifinal, he was eliminated by the eventual winner,
Gata Kamsky, scoring 1.[57]
2008
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In the top group A of the Corus chess tournament, Carlsen scored 8/13, achieving a PR of 2830. Carlsen won five
games, lost two and drew six, sharing first place with Levon Aronian.[58] At the Linares chess tournament, Carlsen
had another 2800+ PR, scoring 8/14. He finished in sole second place,
point behind the winner World Champion Viswanathan Anand.[59]
In March, Carlsen played for the second time in the Melody Amber blind
and rapid chess tournament, held in Nice for the first time. In the 11
rounds he achieved four wins, four draws and two losses in the blindfold,
and three wins, two losses, and six draws in the rapid. This resulted in a
shared fifth place in the blindfold, shared third place in the rapid and a
shared second place in the overall tournament.[60]
Carlsen was one of 21 players in the six-tournament FIDE Grand Prix
20082009, a qualifier for the World Chess Championship 2012. In the
first tournament, in Baku, Azerbaijan, he finished in a three-way tie for
first place, with another 2800 PR. Carlsen later withdrew from the Grand
Prix cycle despite his initial success, criticizing how FIDE was "changing
the rules dramatically in the middle of a [World Championship] cycle".[61]
Carlsen in 2008
Carlsen won a rapid match against Peter Leko held in Miskolc, Hungary, scoring 53.[62] In June, Carlsen won the
annual Aerosvit event,[63] finishing undefeated with 8/11 in a category 19 field and achieving a PR of 2877, his best
PR at that point in his career.[64] Playing in the category 18 Biel Grandmaster Tournament, Carlsen finished third
with 6/10, with a PR of 2740.[65]
In the Mainz World Rapid Chess Championship, Carlsen finished in second place after losing the final to defending
champion Anand 31.[66] In the qualification round Carlsen scoring 1 against Judit Polgr, 11 against Anand
and 11 against Alexander Morozevich.[67] In the category 22 Bilbao Masters, Carlsen tied for second with a
2768 PR.[68]
2009
Playing in Group A of the Corus chess tournament, Carlsen tied for fifth with a 2739 PR.[69] In the Linares chess
tournament, Carlsen finished third with a 2777 PR.[70] Carlsen tied for second place with Veselin Topalov at the
M-Tel Masters (category 21) tournament in Sofia, Bulgaria. He lost to eventual winner Alexei Shirov in their final
game, dropping him from first.[71]
Carlsen won the category 21 Nanjing Pearl Spring tournament, 2 points ahead of second-place finisher Topalov,
the world's highest-rated player at the time. He scored an undefeated 8/10, winning every game as white (against
Topalov, Wang Yue, Leko, Radjabov, and Jakovenko), and also winning as black against Jakovenko. By rating
performance, this was one of the greatest results in history, with a PR of 3002.[72] Chess statistician Jeff Sonas has
declared it one of the 20 best tournament performances of all time, and the best chess performance of all time by a
teenager.[73]
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In the Tal Memorial, played from 5 to 14 November, Carlsen started with seven straight draws, but finished with
wins over Ruslan Ponomariov and Peter Leko. This result put Carlsen in shared second place behind Kramnik and
equal with Ivanchuk.[74][75] After the Tal Memorial, Carlsen won the World Blitz Championship, played from 16 to
18 November in Moscow, Russia. His score of 28 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses left him three points ahead of
Anand, who finished in second place.[76]
Carlsen entered the London Chess Classic as the top seed in a field
including Kramnik, Hikaru Nakamura, Michael Adams, Nigel Short, Ni
Hua, Luke McShane and David Howell. He defeated Kramnik in round
one and went on to win the tournament with 13/21 (three points were
awarded for a win, and one for a draw; using classical scoring he finished
with 5/7) and a PR of 2844, one point ahead of Kramnik. This victory
propelled him to the top of the FIDE rating list, surpassing Veselin
Topalov.[77]
Based on his average ranking from the July 2009 and January 2010
FIDE lists, Carlsen qualified for the Candidates Tournament that would
determine the challenger to World Champion Viswanathan Anand in the
World Chess Championship 2012. In November 2010, however,
Carlsen at the World Blitz
Carlsen announced he was withdrawing from the Candidates
Championship 2009
Tournament. Carlsen described the 200812 cycle as "[not] sufficiently
modern and fair", and wrote that "Reigning champion privileges, the long
(five year) span of the cycle, changes made during the cycle resulting in a new format (Candidates) that no World
Champion has had to go through since Kasparov, puzzling ranking criteria as well as the shallow ceaseless matchafter-match concept are all less than satisfactory in my opinion."[78]
In early 2009 Carlsen engaged former World Champion Garry Kasparov as a personal trainer.[79] In September
their partnership was revealed to the public by Norwegian newspapers.[80][81]
Responding to a question in an interview with Time magazine in December 2009 regarding whether he used
computers when studying chess, Carlsen explained that he does not use a chess set when studying on his own.[82]
2010
Carlsen won the Corus chess tournament played 1631 January with 8 points. His ninth-round loss to Kramnik
ended a streak of 36 rated games undefeated.[83] Carlsen appeared to struggle in the last round against Fabiano
Caruana, but saved a draw, leaving him half a point ahead of Kramnik and Shirov.[84]
In March it was announced that Carlsen had split from Kasparov and would no longer use him as a trainer,[85]
although this was put into different context by Carlsen himself in an interview with the German magazine Der
Spiegel, in which he stated that they would remain in contact and he would continue to attend training sessions with
Kasparov.[86] In 2011, Carlsen said: "Thanks to [Kasparov] I began to understand a whole class of positions
better. ... Kasparov gave me a great deal of practical help."[87] In 2012, when asked what he learnt from working
with Kasparov, Carlsen answered: "Complex positions. That was the most important thing."[88]
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Carlsen shared first place alongside Ivanchuk in the Amber blindfold and rapid tournament. Scoring 6/11 in the
blindfold and 8/11 in the rapid, Carlsen accumulated 14 from a possible 22 points.[89] In May it was revealed
that Carlsen had helped Anand prepare for the World Chess Championship 2010 against challenger Veselin
Topalov, which Anand won 65 to retain the title. Carlsen had also helped Anand prepare for the World Chess
Championships in 2007 and 2008.[90]
Carlsen played in the Bazna Kings Tournament in Romania on 1425 June. The tournament was a double round
robin involving Wang Yue, Boris Gelfand, former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov, Teimour Radjabov,
and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. He finished with 7/10 and a 2918 PR, winning the tournament by two points ahead
of Radjabov and Gelfand.[91] Carlsen then played in a rapid tournament 2830 August at the Arctic Securities
Chess Stars tournament in Kristiansund, Norway. The field featured World Champion Viswanathan Anand, female
world No. 1 Judit Polgr, and Jon Ludvig Hammer. In the preliminary round robin, Carlsen scored 3/6 to qualify
for the final, second behind Anand.[92] In the final, Carlsen defeated Anand 1 to win the championship.[93]
Following this event, Carlsen suffered setbacks in his next two tournaments. In the 39th Chess Olympiad from 19
September to 4 October, he scored 4/8, losing three games, to Baadur Jobava, Michael Adams, and Sanan
Sjugirov; these were his first losses with the black pieces in more than a year.[94] His team, Norway, finished 51st
out of 149 teams.[95]
Carlsen's next tournament was the Grand Slam Masters Final on 915 October, which he had qualified for
automatically by winning three of the previous year's four Grand Slam chess events (2009 Nanjing Pearl Spring,
2010 Corus, 2010 Bazna Kings). Along with Carlsen, the finals consisted of World Champion Anand and the
highest two scorers from the preliminary stage held in Shanghai in September: Kramnik and Shirov.[96][97] The
average Elo of the participants at the time was 2789, making the Grand Slam Final the strongest chess tournament
in history. In the first round, Carlsen lost with black to Kramnik; this was Carlsen's second consecutive loss to
Kramnik, and placed his hold on the world No. 1 ranking in serious jeopardy. In his second round, Carlsen lost
with the white pieces to Anand; this was his first loss as White since January 2010. Carlsen recovered somewhat in
the latter part of the tournament, achieving a win over Shirov, and finishing with 2/6. The tournament was won by
Kramnik with 4/6.[98] Carlsen finished this tournament with a rating of 2802, two points behind Anand at 2804 who
temporarily ended Carlsen's reign at world No. 1. These setbacks called into question from some whether
Carlsen's activities outside chess, such as modelling for G-Star Raw, were distracting him from performing well at
the chessboard.[99] Carlsen said he did not believe there was a direct connection.[100]
Carlsen's next tournament was the Pearl Spring chess tournament on 1930 October in Nanjing, China, against
Anand, Topalov, Vugar Gashimov, Yue, and tienne Bacrot.[101] This was the only tournament in 2010 to feature
Anand, Carlsen and Topalov, at the time the top three players in the world, and was the first tournament in history
to feature three players rated at least 2800. With early wins over Bacrot, Yue, and Topalov with white, Carlsen
took the early lead, extending his winning streak with white in Nanjing to eight. This streak was halted by a draw to
Anand in round seven, but in the penultimate round Carlsen secured first place by defeating Topalov with black.
This was his second victory in the tournament over the former world No. 1; his final score of 7/10 (with a PR of
2903) was a full point ahead of runner-up Anand.[102]
In the World Blitz Championship, held in Moscow on 1618 November, Carlsen attempted to defend his 2009
title. With a score of 23/38, he finished in third place behind Radjabov and winner Levon Aronian.[103] After the
tournament, Carlsen played a private 40-game blitz match against Hikaru Nakamura,[104] winning with a score of
2316.[105]
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Carlsen won the London Chess Classic on 815 December in a field comprising World Champion Anand,
Vladimir Kramnik, Nakamura, and British players Adams, Nigel Short, David Howell, and Luke McShane.
Carlsen had a rocky start, losing his games to McShane and Anand in rounds 1 and 3, but winning with white
against Adams and Nakamura in rounds 2 and 4. He joined the lead with a win over Howell in round 5, and
managed to stay in the lead following a harrowing draw against Kramnik
in round 6, before defeating Short in the last round. Since the tournament
was played with three points for a win, Carlsen's +42=1 score put him
ahead of Anand and McShane who scored +2=5 (a more traditional
two-points-for-a-win system would have yielded a three-way tie, with
Carlsen still on top, having the better tiebreaker due to four games with
blackAnand and McShane played only three times with black).[106]
2011
Carlsen competed in the GM-A group of the Tata Steel Chess (Corus)
tournament on 1430 January in Wijk aan Zee in an attempt to defend
his title; the field included World Champion Viswanathan Anand, Levon
Carlsen at the 2010 London Chess
Aronian, former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, Alexander
Classic
Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura, and former FIDE World Champion Ruslan
Ponomariov, among others. Despite losing games with white against
Anish Giri and reigning Russian champion Ian Nepomniachtchi, Carlsen finished with 8/13, including victories over
Kramnik and tournament winner Nakamura.[107] Although Carlsen's performance raised his rating from 2814 to
2815, Anand's 8/13 score elevated his rating to 2817, making him the world No. 1 for the March 2011 FIDE
rating list.[108]
The first tournament victory of the year came in the Bazna Kings tournament, a double round robin played in
Medias on 1121 June. Carlsen finished with 6/10, equal with Sergey Karjakin but with a better tiebreak score.
Carlsen won his White games against Nakamura, Nisipeanu, and Ivanchuk and drew the rest of the games.[109]
The Grand Slam Chess Final was held as a double round robin with six players, in So Paulo (25 September1
October) and Bilbao (511 October). Although Carlsen had a slow start, including a loss against bottom-ranked
Vallejo Pons, he finished +31=6, equal with Ivanchuk (whose +43=3 finish was equal due to three points for a
win). Carlsen then won the blitz tiebreak against Ivanchuk. The other players were Anand, Aronian, Nakamura,
and Vallejo Pons.[110]
Another tournament victory was achieved in the Tal Memorial in Moscow 1625 November as a round robin with
ten players. Carlsen won two games, against Gelfand and Nakamura, and drew the rest. Although he finished equal
on points with Aronian, he placed ahead since the tiebreak was determined by the number of Black games; Carlsen
had five Black games while Aronian only had four.[111]
In the London Chess Classic, played 312 December, Carlsen's streak of tournament victories ended when he
finished third, behind Kramnik and Nakamura. Carlsen won three games and drew five. Although he did not win
the tournament, Carlsen gained rating points, rising to a new personal record of 2835.[112]
2012
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At the Tata Steel Chess Tournament held 1429 January in Wijk aan
Zee, Carlsen finished in a shared second place with 8/13, behind
Aronian, and equal with Radjabov and Caruana. Carlsen defeated
Gashimov, Aronian, Gelfand, and Topalov, but lost against Karjakin.[113]
At the Blitz chess tournament at Tal Memorial, Moscow 7 June, Carlsen
shared first place with Morozevich. In the main event (a category 22 tenplayer round robin), he won two games and drew seven. He finished in
first place, ahead of Radjabov and Caruana.[114]
Carlsen then went on to finish second in the Biel Grandmaster
Tournament, with 18 points, just one point behind Hao using the 310
scoring system. As in the Tal Memorial earlier in 2012, Carlsen managed
to finish the tournament without any losses (+40=6). He also defeated
Carlsen at the Tata Steel Chess
the winner Hao in both of their individual games. In the exhibition blitz
Tournament in 2012
tournament at Biel before the GM tournament, Carlsen was eliminated
(+12=0) in the first round by tienne Bacrot. Bacrot deprived Carlsen
of a win in the classical tournament by holding him to a draw in the final round. Carlsen would have won the
classical tournament on the traditional 10 scoring system, with 7/10.[115]
The Grand Slam Chess Final was again held as a double round robin with six players, in So Paulo and Bilbao.
Carlsen started with a loss against Caruana, but after three wins in the second (Bilbao) round, finished +41=5,
equal first with Caruana, and ahead of Aronian, Karjakin and Anand. Carlsen won the tournament by winning both
tiebreak games against Caruana.[116]
From 24 to 25 November, Carlsen took part in the chess festival Segunda Gran Fiesta Internacional de Ajedrez in
Mexico City. As part of it, Carlsen took on an online audience (dubbed as "The World") with the white pieces and
won. He then took part in the knockout exhibition event Cuadrangular UNAM. Carlsen first beat Lzaro Bruzn
1, thus qualifying for a final against Judit Polgr (who had in turn beat Manuel Len Hoyos 1). Carlsen
lost the first game, but won the second one, and in the tiebreak defeated Polgr 20.[117][118]
Carlsen won the London Chess Classic in December with five wins (over McShane, Aronian, Gawain Jones,
Adams and Judit Polgr) and three draws (against Kramnik, Nakamura and Anand).[119] This win, the third time
Carlsen had won the tournament in the past four years, increased his rating from 2848 to a new record of 2861,
breaking Kasparov's 13-year record of 2851.[119][120] By rating performance, this was one of the best results in
history, with a PR of 2994.[121]
2013
Carlsen played in the 75th Tata Steel Chess Tournament from 11 to 27 January in Wijk aan Zee. In the 13-round
tournament, he scored 10 points (+70=6), winning clear first 1 points ahead of second-place finisher
Aronian.[122] On 1 February, Danish GM Peter Heine Nielsen joined the team of assistants who helped Carlsen
prepare for the Candidates Tournament in March. Before this, Nielsen was on Viswanathan Anand's team.[123]
Carlsen played in the 2013 Candidates Tournament, which took place in London, from 15 March to 1 April. He
finished with +52=7, and won the tournament on tiebreak over Vladimir Kramnik. As a result, he earned the right
to challenge Anand for the World Champion title.[124]
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In May, Carlsen played in the tournament Norway Chess. He finished

second, scoring 5/9 (+31=5), half a point behind Sergey
Karjakin.[125]
Carlsen played in the Tal Memorial from June 12 to June 23. He finished
second, with 5/9, half a point behind Boris Gelfand. Carlsen ended the
tournament with +31=5, losing to Caruana but beating Anand, Kramnik
and Nakamura.[126] Later that month, Carlsen played a four-game
friendly rapid match against Borki Predojevi, which he won 2
1.[127]
Carlsen in play during round seven at

Tata Steel in Wijk aan Zee, 2013
In the Sinquefield Cup, held in September, Carlsen finished first, scoring

+30=3, a point ahead of Nakamura.[128]
World Chess Championship 2013
Carlsen faced Anand in the World Chess Championship 2013 in Chennai, India, from 9 to 22 November. Carlsen
won the match 63 by winning games five, six and nine and drawing the remainder. Thus, Carlsen became the
new world chess champion.[129]
Results
1. Carlsen vs Anand {draw}

2. Anand vs Carlsen {draw}
5. Carlsen vs Anand {1-0}
6. Anand vs Carlsen {0-1}
2014
From 29 January to 4 February, Carlsen played in the 2014 Zurich Chess Challenge, winning the preliminary blitz
event (+21=2) and the classical event (+30=2). He performed less well in the rapid event (+12=2), which
counted towards the overall standings, but retained enough of a lead to win the tournament. The other players in the
event were Aronian, Nakamura, Caruana, Gelfand and Anand.[130]
Carlsen played a game for his club Stavanger in the final team match for promotion to the Norwegian Premier
League on 22 March. His win over Vladimir Georgiev helped his team to a 32 win over Nordstrand.[131]
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Carlsen won the Shamkir Chess tournament at mkir, Azerbaijan, played from 2030 April. He played in the A
group along with Caruana, Nakamura, Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Radjabov. Carlsen started the tournament with
2/2, beating Mamedyarov and Nakamura. He then drew Karjakin, only to lose two games in a row for the first
time in four years, losing to Caruana with black and then with white to Radjabov. In the second half of the
tournament, Carlsen scored 4/5, beating Mamedyarov and Nakamura again, and securing the tournament victory
by beating Caruana in the final round, finishing with +52=3.[132]
On 8 May Carlsen played an exhibition game at Oslo City against the people of Norway, assisted by a
grandmaster panel consisting of Simen Agdestein, Leif Erlend Johannessen, and Jon Ludvig Hammer. Each of the
panel members proposed a move and the public could then vote over the proposed moves. Each panel member
was allowed three chances to let chess engine Houdini propose a move during the game. Norway's moves were
executed by Oddvar Br who was disguised in a red spandex suit for the occasion. The game was drawn when
Carlsen forced a perpetual check.[133]
Carlsen placed second (to Sergey Karjakin) in the 2014 edition of Norway Chess, a ten-player round robin, from
2 June to 13 June. Other players in the event were Aronian, Caruana, Topalov, Svidler, Kramnik, Grischuk, Giri
and Agdestein.[134]
Carlsen won FIDE World Rapid Championships held in Dubai from 16 June to 19 June.[135] He went on to claim
the World Blitz Championships two days later,[136] becoming the first player to simultaneously hold the title in all
three FIDE rated time controls.
Carlsen played nine games for Norway in the 41st Chess Olympiad, scoring five wins, two draws, and two losses
(against Arkadij Naiditsch and Ivan ari).[137]
Carlsen placed second to Fabiano Caruana in the Sinquefield Cup, a six-player double round robin in Saint Louis,
Missouri from 27 August to 7 September. Billed as the strongest chess tournament ever held, the remaining players
in the event were Aronian, Nakamura, Topalov, and Vachier-Lagrave.[138]
World Chess Championship 2014
Carlsen faced Anand in a match for the title of World Chess Champion in November 2014, as Anand qualified by
winning the 2014 Candidates Tournament. The rematch was held from November 7 to 23 in Sochi, Russia. After
11 of 12 games, Carlsen led 6.54.5, thereby defending his World Champion title.[139]
Results
1. Anand vs Carlsen draw

4. Carlsen vs Anand draw
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9. Carlsen vs Anand draw
2015
In January, Carlsen won the 2015 Tata Steel Chess Tournament, which was played mainly in Wijk aan Zee 925
January. Carlsen had a poor start to the tournament with two draws and a loss in the third round to Radosaw
Wojtaszek, which left him in tenth place among the fourteen players. However, a string of six wins in a row thrust
Carlsen into clear first place. Drawing the final four games was sufficient to win the tournament with 9 points out of
13, half a point ahead of Anish Giri, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So and Ding Liren.[140][141]
In February, Carlsen won the 3rd Grenke Chess Classic after a five-game tiebreak with Arkadij Naiditsch. The
tournament was played in Baden-Baden 29 February.[142] Carlsen finished equal with Naidistch on 4.5/7, beating
Michael Adams, Vishy Anand, and David Baramidze, and losing to Naiditsch in their classical encounter. This
tournament victory meant that Carlsen began 2015 by winning two out of two tournaments.
Honours
Carlsen won the Chess Oscars for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The Chess Oscar, conducted by the Russian
chess magazine 64, is awarded to the year's best player according to a worldwide poll of leading chess critics,
writers, and journalists.[143][144] The Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) has awarded him "Name of the
Year" (rets navn) twice, in 2009[145] and 2013.[146] VG also named him "Sportsman of the year" in 2009[147]
and in the same year he won the Folkets Idrettspris, a people's choice award from the newspaper
Dagbladet.[148] In 2011, he was given the Peer Gynt Prize, a Norwegian honour prize awarded annually to "a
person or institution that has achieved distinction in society";[149] the following year, he repeated as winner of
Folkets Idrettspris.[150] In 2013, Time magazine named Carlsen one of the 100 most influential people in the
world.[151]
Playing style
Carlsen had an aggressive style of play as a youth,[152][153] and, according to Agdestein, his play was characterised
by "a fearless readiness to offer material for activity".[154] Carlsen found as he matured that this risky playing style
was not as well suited against the world elite. When he started playing in top tournaments he was struggling against
top players, and had trouble getting much out of the opening. To progress, Carlsen's style became more universal,
capable of handling all sorts of positions well. Carlsen opens with both 1.d4 and 1.e4, as well as 1.c4, and, on
occasion, 1.Nf3, thus making it harder for opponents to prepare against him.[155][156] Evgeny Sveshnikov has
criticised Carlsen's opening play, claiming in a 2013 interview that without a more "scientific" approach to
preparation, his "future doesn't look so promising".[157]
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Garry Kasparov, who coached Carlsen from 2009

to 2010, said that Carlsen has a positional style
similar to that of past world champions such as
Anatoly Karpov, Jos Ral Capablanca, and
Vasily Smyslov, rather than the tactical style of
Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Tal, and Kasparov
[Carlsen] has been known to say that he isn't all that

interested in opening preparation; his main forte is the
middlegame, in which he manages to outplay many of his
opponents with positional means. ... Carlsen's repertoire is
aimed at avoiding an early crisis in the game. He invariably
aims for middlegames that lend themselves to a strategic
approach.
himself.[159] According to Carlsen, however, he

does not have any preferences in playing style.[87]
Jan Timman, 2012[158]
Kasparov said in 2013 that "Carlsen is a
combination of Karpov [and] Fischer. He gets his
positions [and] then never lets go of that bulldog bite. Exhausting for opponents."[160] Carlsen has also stated that
he follows in the traditions of Karpov and Fischer, but also mentions Reuben Fine as a player who "was doing in
chess similar to what I am doing."[161] Anand has said of Carlsen: "The majority of ideas occur to him absolutely
naturally. He's also very flexible, he knows all the structures and he can play almost any position. ... Magnus can
literally do almost everything."[162] Kasparov expressed similar sentiments: "[Carlsen] has the ability to correctly
evaluate any position, which only Karpov could boast of before him."[163] In a 2012 interview, Vladimir Kramnik
attributed much of Carlsen's success against other top players to his "excellent physical shape" and his ability to
avoid "psychological lapses", which enables him to maintain a high standard of play over long games and at the end
of tournaments, when the energy levels of others have dropped.[164] Tyler Cowen gave an interesting point of view
on Carlsen's playing style "Carlsen is demonstrating one of his most feared qualities, namely his nettlesomeness, to
use a term coined for this purpose by Ken Regan. Using computer analysis, you can measure which players do the
most to cause their opponents to make mistakes. Carlsen has the highest nettlesomeness score by this metric,
because his creative moves pressure the other player and open up a lot of room for mistakes. In contrast, a player
such as Kramnik plays a high percentage of very accurate moves, and of course he is very strong, but those moves
are in some way calmer and they are less likely to induce mistakes in response."[165]
Carlsen's endgame prowess has been described as among the greatest in history.[166][167][168][169] Jon Speelman,
analysing several of Carlsen's endgames from the 2012 London Classic (in particular, his wins against McShane,
Aronian, and Adams), described what he calls the "Carlsen effect":
... through the combined force of his skill and no less important his reputation, he drives his opponents
into errors. ... He plays on for ever, calmly, methodically and, perhaps most importantly of all, without
fear: calculating superbly, with very few outright mistakes and a good proportion of the "very best"
moves. This makes him a monster and makes many opponents wilt.[170]
Rating
Rating achievements
In the January 2006 FIDE list, at the age of 15 years, 32 days, he attained a 2625 Elo rating, which made Carlsen
the youngest person to surpass 2600 Elo (the record has since been broken by Wei Yi at the age of 14 years, four
months, and 30 days).[171] In the July 2007 FIDE list, at the age of 16 years, 213 days, Carlsen attained a 2710
Elo rating, which made him the youngest person to surpass 2700 Elo(the record has since been broken by Wei Yi
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at the age of 15 years, x months, and x days).[172] On 5 September 2008, after winning round 4 in the Bilbao
Grand Slam chess championship, Carlsen, just 17 years, 280 days old, briefly became No. 1 on the unofficial live
ratings list.[173][174] Carlsen's SeptemberOctober 2009 victory in the Nanjing Pearl tournament raised his FIDE
rating to 2801, making him at age 18 years, 336 days, the youngest player ever to break 2800.[72] The youngest
before him was Vladimir Kramnik at age 25.[175] Before Carlsen, only Kasparov, Topalov, Kramnik, and Anand
had achieved a 2800+ rating.[176] After the Tal Memorial (November 2009) he became No. 1 on the unofficial live
chess rating list with his new peak rating of 2805.7, 0.6 point over the No. 2 ranked player, Veselin Topalov.[177]
The FIDE rankings from January 2010, which took into account the 16 games played at the Tal Memorial and the
London Chess Classic, were enough to raise Carlsen's rating to 2810.[178] This meant that Carlsen started 2010 by
being, at the age of 19 years, 32 days, the youngest ever world No. 1, and also the first player from a Western
nation to reach the top of the FIDE rating list since Bobby Fischer in 1971.[179][180] The press coverage of this feat
included an interview and article in Time magazine.[82][181]
The March 2010 FIDE rating list showed Carlsen with a new peak rating of 2813, a figure that only Kasparov had
bettered at that time.[85] On the January 2013 FIDE rating list, Carlsen reached 2861, thus surpassing Garry
Kasparov's 2851 record from July 1999.[119][120] On list from May 2014, Carlsen achieved an all time high record
of 2882.[182]
Head-to-head record versus selected grandmasters

(Rapid, blitz and blindfold games not included; listed as +wins losses =draws as of 6 February 2015.)[183]
Players who have been World Champion in boldface
Michael Adams +81=4

Viswanathan Anand +107=35
Levon Aronian +114=30
tienne Bacrot +30=7
Fabiano Caruana +64=7
Leinier Domnguez +50=5
Boris Gelfand +51=9
Anish Giri +01=6
Alexander Grischuk +20=8
Wang Hao +32=1
Pentala Harikrishna +11=2
Vassily Ivanchuk +83=15
Dmitry Jakovenko +40=2
Baadur Jobava +22=2
Gata Kamsky +32=6
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Sergey Karjakin +31=14

Vladimir Kramnik +44=13
Peter Leko +23=10
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov +31=6
Luke McShane +31=3
Alexander Morozevich +30=8
Arkadij Naiditsch +32=7
Hikaru Nakamura +110=16
David Navara +11=3
Ian Nepomniachtchi +03=1
Judit Polgr +20=1
Ruslan Ponomariov +21=3
Teimour Radjabov +92=18
Krishnan Sasikiran +00=3
Alexei Shirov +62=8
Nigel Short +20=3
Peter Svidler +12=10
Evgeny Tomashevsky +00=1
Veselin Topalov +83=8
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave +21=5
Loek van Wely +62=5
Radosaw Wojtaszek +1-1=0
Sortable record list
Name
Wins
Losses
Draws
Overall scoring percentage (%)
Michael Adams
75
Evgeny Alekseev
38.89
Viswanathan Anand
10
35
52.88
Levon Aronian
10
28
57.14
tienne Bacrot
65
Ferenc Berkes
Lzaro Bruzn
50
Fabiano Caruana
53.13
Leinier Domnguez
75
Vugar Gashimov
62.5
Boris Gelfand
63.33
Anish Giri
41.67
Alexander Grischuk
60
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Wang Hao
58.33
Pentala Harikrishna
50
Vassily Ivanchuk
14
60
Dmitry Jakovenko
83.33
Baadur Jobava
40
Gata Kamsky
54.55
Sergey Karjakin
14
55.56
Vladimir Kramnik
13
50
Peter Leko
10
46.67
Vladimir Malakhov
50
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
60
Luke McShane
64.29
Alexander Morozevich
63.64
Sergei Movsesian
33.33
Arkadij Naiditsch
59.09
Hikaru Nakamura
11
16
70.37
David Navara
50
Ian Nepomniachtchi
12.5
Judit Polgr
83.33
Ruslan Ponomariov
58.33
Teimour Radjabov
18
62.07
Krishnan Sasikiran
50
Alexei Shirov
62.5
Nigel Short
70
Sanan Sjugirov
Peter Svidler
10
46.15
Evgeny Tomashevsky
50
Veselin Topalov
63.16
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 2
57.14
Loek van Wely
62.5
Andrei Volokitin
16.67
Notable games
All links in this section lead to an external site.
CarlsenGarry Kasparov, Reykjavk Rapid (2004), Queen's Gambit Declined: Cambridge Springs Variation
(D52), (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1279168) At the age of just 13 years,
Carlsen had serious winning chances in a rapid game against Garry Kasparov,[23] ranked No. 1 in the world
at that time,[184] and considered by many to be the greatest chess player of all time.[185]
CarlsenVeselin Topalov, M-Tel Masters (2009), Semi-Slav Defense: General (D43), 10
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(http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1544430) This was Carlsen's first win against a 2800+

player.[186]
CarlsenBoris Gelfand, Tal Memorial (2011), Slav Defense: Quiet Variation. Schallopp Defense (D12), 10
(http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1647771) The No. 1 Israeli player and future World
Championship challenger creates a seemingly decisive rook invasion into White's back rank, but Carlsen
vanquishes his threats. Carlsen called it "one of the most interesting games I have played in recent times".[187]
CarlsenHikaru Nakamura, London Chess Classic (2011), Italian Game: Classical Variation. Giuoco
Pianissimo (C53), 10 (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1649097) Facing the No. 1
American player, Carlsen demolishes Black's pawn structure.
CarlsenViswanathan Anand, Bilbao Masters (2012), Sicilian Defense: Canal Attack. Main Line (B52), 10
(http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1693032) Playing against the then World Champion in a
game he considers one of the best in his career,[188] Carlsen sacrifices a pawn to leave Black with a
cramped position, leading to his resignation at move 30.
Carlsen's complete PGN chess game collection can be downloaded from [1]
(http://www.smallchess.com/Games/Magnus%20Carlsen.pgn)
Beyond chess
Carlsen modelled for G-Star Raw's Autumn/Winter 2010 advertising campaign with actress Liv Tyler. The
campaign was shot by Dutch film director and photographer Anton Corbijn.[189] The campaign was coordinated
with the RAW World Chess Challenge in New York, an event where Carlsen played an online team of global
chess players who voted on moves suggested by three GMs: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, and
Judit Polgr. Carlsen, playing White, won in 43 moves.[190] Film director J. J. Abrams offered Carlsen a role in the
movie Star Trek Into Darkness as "a chess player from the future", but he had to decline, unable to get a US work
permit in time for shooting.[191] In 2012, Carlsen was featured in a 60 Minutes segment,[192] and appeared as a
guest on The Colbert Report.[193] He was also interviewed by Rainn Wilson for SoulPancake.[194] Carlsen was
selected as one of the "sexiest men of 2013" by Cosmopolitan.[195] In August 2013, Carlsen became an
ambassador for Nordic Semiconductor.[196]
As of 2012, Carlsen is the only active chess professional with a full-time manager. Espen Agdestein, brother of
Carlsen's former trainer Simen, and a FIDE Master[197] and twice member of the Norwegian team at the Chess
Olympiads, began working as an agent for Carlsen in late 2008. His work consisted initially of finding sponsors and
negotiating media contacts, but since 2011, he has taken over management tasks formerly performed by Carlsen's
father Henrik.[198] Carlsen reportedly earned roughly US$1.2 million in 2012, the bulk of which was from
sponsorships.[199]
In October 2013, Carlsen started his majority-owned company, Play Magnus AS. Based in Oslo, Norway, Play
Magnus' first product is an iOS app that allows a user to play a Magnus Carlsen-tuned chess engine at 19 different
ages (from ages 5 to 23). The chess engine was created using a database of thousands of Carlsen's recorded
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games from the age of 10. Carlsen's goal is to use Play Magnus as a platform to encourage more people to play
chess.[200]
In December 2013, Carlsen publicly denied having a form of autism spectrum disorder in an interview with
Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang, amid persistent speculation. He went on to clarify his earlier response in 2008
during a Q&A session with Nettavisen, during which he replied, "yes, isn't it obvious?"[201] He went on to say that
he considers himself to have "normal social skills and to be functioning normally."[202]
In February 2014, Carlsen appeared in G-Star Raw's Spring/Summer 2014 campaign along with actress and
model Lily Cole.[203]
Books and films

Valaker, O; Carlsen, M. (2004). Lr sjakk med Magnus [Learn Chess with Magnus]. Gyldendal Norsk
Forlag. ISBN 978-82-05-33963-7.
The Prince of Chess, a film about Magnus Carlsen (2005). Directed by yvind Asbjrnsen.[204]
Opedal, Hallgeir (2011). Smarte trekk. Magnus Carlsen: Verdens beste sjakkspiller [Smart Moves.
Magnus Carlsen: The World's Best Chess Player]. Kagge. ISBN 978-82-489-1050-3
Mikhalchishin, Adrian; Stetsko, Oleg. (2012). Fighting Chess with Magnus Carlsen (Progress in Chess).
Edition Olms. ISBN 978-3-283-01020-1.
Crouch, Colin (2013). Magnus Force: How Carlsen Beat Kasparov's Record. Everyman Chess. ISBN
978-1-78194-133-1.
Kotronias, Vassilios & Logothetis, Sotiris (2013). Carlsen's assault on the throne. Quality Chess. ISBN
978-1-906552-22-0.
See also
List of chess players by peak ELO rating
Comparison of top chess players throughout history
List of FIDE chess world number ones
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pid=52948) player profile and games at Chessgames.com
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Official blog (http://www.arcticsec.no/index.php?
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Achievements
Preceded by
Viswanathan Anand
World Chess Champion

2013present
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Leinier Domnguez
L Quang Lim
World Blitz Chess Champion

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2014
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World Rapid Chess Champion

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Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand
World No. 1
1 January 2010 31 October 2010
1 January 2011 28 February 2011
1 July 2011 present
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Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand
Incumbent
Preceded by
Tora Berger
Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year

2013
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Ole Einar Bjrndalen
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the country's top player, Grandmaster (GM) Simen Agdestein,[10] who in

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Carlsen vs. Ernst, 2004

Position after 17...c5. The game

Carlsen obtained his second GM norm in the Moscow Aeroflot

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In May, Carlsen played in the tournament Norway Chess. He finished

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8. Anand vs Carlsen draw

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Garry Kasparov, who coached Carlsen from 2009

[Carlsen] has been known to say that he isn't all that

himself.[159] According to Carlsen, however, he

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Head-to-head record versus selected grandmasters

Michael Adams +81=4

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Sergey Karjakin +31=14

Overall scoring percentage (%)

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Loek van Wely

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(http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1544430) This was Carlsen's first win against a 2800+

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(http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5828). ChessBase News. Retrieved 3 January 2013.

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