About Magnus Carlsen

Magnus Carlsen was born on 30 November 1990 [1][2]) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, former world chess champion, current world rapid chess champion and current champion. World Blitz Chess Champion. Carlsen first topped the FIDE world rankings in 2010 and is only behind Garry Kasparov in terms of time as the player with the highest ELO in the world (elo 2881). His peak standard chess ELO coefficient was 2903, the highest in history.

A chess prodigy, Carlsen won joint first prize in the 2002 World U12 Chess Championship. Shortly after turning 13, he finished first in group C of the Corus and Corus chess tournaments. won the title of grandmaster a few months later. At age 15, he won the Norwegian Chess Championship, and at age 17, he tied for first place in the top group of the Corus chess tournament. He surpassed the ELO level of 2800 at the age of 18 and reached number one in the FIDE world rankings at the age of 19, becoming the youngest person ever to achieve those feats.