The world's top chess player quit a major tournament in New York City after officials told him he couldn't wear jeans to compete. Magnus Carlsen, 34, was competing in the International Chess Federation (FIDE)'s World Blitz Chess Championship and the World Rapid Chess Championship. During thes...
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GMMagnus Carlsenis the only player to hold the world championship in all time controls (standard, rapid, and blitz)—he held all three simultaneously in 2019. In 2009 he became the youngest player in history to reach the 2800-rating threshold, and on April 21, 2014, he reached his peak ...
Elite players take the game to an entirely different level. Far from being a hobby, for these players, chess is life. It’s a career. Much like a star athlete focuses every aspect of their lives on their sport, a championship chess player must devote the majority of their time and energ...
Global Sports company PUMA brought together five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen and professional football player Christian Pulisic, as the two sport icons met on a football pitch to have a conversation about the differences and similarities between chess and football....
Norway’s Carlsen spoke with 60 Minutes in 2012. At the time, he was the youngest No. 1 chess player ever. Now 25 years old, he’s held onto the title world champion for three years, along with a nickname he acquired in his prodigy days: The Mozart of Chess. ...
Magnus Carlsen was born in Tonsberg, Norway on November 30, 1990. Since childhood, he was trained by the master Simen Agdestein, achieving incredible results and setting a record as the youngest player to reach first position in the ranking at the age of 19. At 22, he set another record...
Carlsen is a hard player to please—if he's the judge and jury. He strived for more: "My goal for this season, also for the last two seasons, has been very clear: to, in a major way, establish the pecking order when it comes to speed chess. And, to be honest, I've failed mi...
Magnus Carlsen is bringing sexy back… to chess. The 22-year-old Norwegian is the current, and youngest ever, No. 1 ranked chess player in the world. He's also a fashion model. This week he is in Chenai, India, for the World Chess Championship squaring off against defending champion...
Magnus Carlsen v Nijat Abasov, World Cup semi-final, Baku 2023. Black chose 1 . . . Rg6 and lost. How could he have beaten the World No 1? Abasov’s missed opportunity went against the run of play. Carlsen had been the one pressing, and when you have been on the back fo...