Magnus Carlsen-The King Of Chess

Sven Magnus Qen Carlsen(born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, former world champion, current world rapid champion and current world blitz champion. Carlsen first topped the FIDE world ratings in 2010 and is second only to Garry Kasparov in terms of time as the highest Elo player in the world (2881). His peak standard chess Elo rating is 2903, the highest in history. A child prodigy, Carlsen won the title of joint-first in the 2002 World Under-12 Chess Championship. Shortly after turning 13, he finished first in Group C of the Corus chess tournament and won the grandmaster title a few months later. At the age of 15, he won the Norwegian Chess Championship, and at 17, he tied for first place in the top group of the Corus tournament. He surpassesd the ELO 2800 mark at the age of 18 and reached number one in the FIDE world ratings at the age of 19, becoming the youngest person ever to achieve these feats.

Carlsen became the 2013 World Chess Champion by defeating Viswanathan Anand. The following year, he successfully defended his title against Anand, winning both the 2014 World Rapid Championship and the 2014 World Blitz Championship, thus becoming the first player to hold all three titles simultaneously; a feat he repeated in 2019. He defended his title as the world standard chess champion, defeating Serge Karjakin in 2016, Fabiano Caruana in 2018 andsrlsen has developed into a well-rounded player. He uses a variety of openings to make it harder for opponsiddlegame is his favourite stage of the game because it "returns to pure chess". Carlsen's positional plspov, Vasily Smyslov and Jose Raúl Capablanca.
Carlsen was born in Norway on 30 November 1990, to Sigrun Carlsen, a chemical engineer, and Henrik Albert Carlsen, an IT consultant. The family lsttling in Lommedalen, Bærum. They later moved to Haslum. Carlsen showed an aptitude for intellectual chs with Lego with instructions for children aged 10–14. Carlsen was taught chess by his father at the sok he read was Bent Larsen's Find the Plan. Carlsen developed his chess skills by playing chess alone for hours at a time – moving pieces around the board, finding combinations, and replaying games os99 Norwegian Chess Championship – at the age of 8 years and 7 months, scoring 6½/11.

Carlsen was then coached at the Norwegian sCollege of Elite Sport by the country's top player, Grandmaster Simen Agdestein. In 2000, Agsegian junior champion. They began weekly training in March. Carlsen progressed rapidly with Hansen, gaining over a thousand elo points in less than a year. His breakthrough tournament was the Norwegian Junior Chess Championship in September 2000, where Carlsen scored 3½/5 against Norway's top jsunior players and a Performance Rating (PR) of around 2000. Apart from chess, which Carlsen studied for three to four hours a day, he enjoyed playing football, skiing and reading Donald Duck comics. From autsumn 2000 to the end of 2002, Carlsen played about 300 rated tournaments, several blitz tournaments and a few other minor tournaments. He achieved three IM standards almost consecutively: the first in January 20s03 at the Gausdall Troll Masters (7/10, 2345 PR); the second in June 2003 at the Salongernas IM in Stockholm (6/9, 2470 PR); the third in July 2003 at the Politiken Cup in Copenhagen (8/11, 2503 PR). He wass officially awarded the IM title on 20 August 2003. After finishing primary school, Carlsen took a year off to participate in international tournaments held in Europe during the autumn of 2003. That same year,s he tied for third place at the European Under-14 Championship.