Prince of Chess: Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen, the current world champion is also known as the prince of chess.At the age of 13, Magnus Carlsen was the world's youngest Chess Grand Master. He is the Current World Chess Champion, World Rapid Chess Champion, and World Blitz Chess Champion.Carlsen first reached the top of the FIDE world rankings in 2010, and trails only Garry Kasparov in time spent as the highest rated player in the world. His peak classical rating of 2882 is the highest in history. 

Carlsen’s father first taught him how to play chess when he was five years old. He played in his first tournament at the age of eight. Carlsen finished second in the boys’ under-12 division at the 2002 Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) World Youth Chess Championship, held in Iráklion, Greece.

In January 2004 he won his first tournament, at Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. Although he was playing in the lowest-rated group against adult players, his domination of the tournament, best exemplified in a game won with a 29-move checkmate, established him as a player with enormous potential and led American chess player Lubomir Kavalek to dub him the “Mozart of chess.” In March of the same year, at a blitz chess tournament (where the game is played at a much faster pace than normal) in Reykjavík, he defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov and drew a game against another former champion, Garry Kasparov. He became a grandmaster after finishing in second place at the Dubai Open Chess Championship in April 2004.

" I hope to become the World Champion, It has to happen before 2020" 

He did become the world champion 7 years before than he expected.

Carlsen became the first to hold all three titles (World Chess Champion, World Rapid Champion and World Blitz Champion) at the same time. 

Carlsen won the Chess Oscars for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. The Chess Oscar, organised by the Russian chess magazine 64, was awarded to the year's best player according to a worldwide poll of leading chess critics, writers, and journalists, but it was no longer awarded after 2013, as 64 ceased publication.

Most people call him a genius. Well, there's no doubt about it. 

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