Wesley So ties Magnus Carlsen at the start of Croatian tourney

MAGNUS CARLSEN
(born November-30-1990, 31 years old) Norway

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Magnus Carlsen (total name: Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen) is the 16th undisputed World Champion. He wrested the crown from Viswanathan Anand in Nov 2013 and successfully defended information technology a year later on. In November 2016, Carlsen retained his crown when he defeated the challenger, Sergey Karjakin, in the rapid game tiebreaker after the 12-game classical match was tied. In November 2018, he again won the rapid tiebreaker to defend his title, this time against Fabiano Caruana in London. In Dec 2021, he successfully defended his title a quaternary fourth dimension in the Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi World Championship Lucifer (2021), routing Ian Nepomniachtchi vii.5-3.5 (68.ii%), the highest percentage score in a world championship match since Emanuel Lasker shellacked David Janowski 9.5-1.5 (86.4%) in the Lasker - Janowski World Championship Match (1910).

Landmarks

FM (2002); IM (2003); GM (2004); vice-World U12 World Champion (2002); Norwegian Champion (2006); Candidate (2007 & 2013); World Champion (2013, 2014, 2016, 2018 & 2021); World Rapid Champion (2014, 2015 & 2019) and World Rush Champion (2009, 2014, 2017, 2018 & 2019), winner of the Grand Chess Tour (2015), five-fourth dimension winner at Wijk aan Zee (2008 (jointly with Levon Aronian), 2010, 2013, 2015 & 2016).

Carlsen has been the world's height ranked player since January 2010, apart from six months between November 2010 and June 2011 when he was #two, and possesses the highest standard FIDE rating e'er posted, as well as the highest ever live rating. In January 2016, he became the commencement person to be the globe #1 in standard, rapid and blitz chess.

Primary Norms

<IM norms> Carlsen earned his offset IM norm in Jan 2003, at the Gausdal Troll Masters, where he scored 7/x. His second IM norm came in June 2003, at the Salongernas IM-tournament in Stockholm, where he scored six/nine and his 3rd and final IM norm came in the following calendar month, at the 2003 Politiken Loving cup in Copenhagen, where he scored eight/11.

<GM norms> In early 2004, Carlsen made a major international impact when he won Corus C with 10.5/thirteen, hands earning his get-go grandmaster norm and securing his entry to the Corus B in 2005. Carlsen obtained his second grandmaster norm in the Aeroflot Open up (2004) in February and his third grandmaster norm at the 6th Dubai Open (2004), held between 18th and 28th Apr.

Background :

Carlsen was born in Tønsberg, Vestfold. His parents are Sigrun Øen and Henrik Carlsen, both of whom are engineers. His father taught him chess at the age of viii, after which he soon played his offset tournament, a inferior (Miniputt) Norwegian title. Carlsen was coached by vii-time Norwegian Champion Simen Agdestein and by Torbjorn Ringdal Hansen. He was awarded the title of International Master in 2003, at the age of 12 years, vii months and 25 days. In 2004, after having gained over 300 rating points in little over a year, Carlsen became the 2d-youngest grandmaster in chess history at the time, behind only Sergey Karjakin, at the age of 13 years, 4 months and 27 days. Parimarjan Negi later pipped his tape by five days to become the second youngest grandmaster ever.

Championships :

<Age>: Carlsen won the Norwegian U11 Championship in 2000 and the U10 Nordic Championship in 2001. In 2002, he placed =1st in the Open up Norwegian Junior Championship with five.5/vii, but hands won the same event the following year with 6/vi. Carlsen started with 4/iv at the 2002 U12 European Title but faded to stop sixth. In the 2002 U12 World Championship a few weeks later, Carlsen was sole leader coming into the final circular, simply was held to a draw past David Howell, enabling Ian Nepomniachtchi to equal his score and to win on tiebreak. He placed =3rd at the 2003 U14 European Title, half a point backside Sergei Zhigalko and Tornike Sanikidze, a curt time later placing =ninth with seven.5/xi at the Earth U14 Championship in Halkidiki.

<National and Continental>: A couple of weeks after being eliminated from the FIDE Earth Championship Knockout Tournament (2004) (see beneath), he placed =1st in the 2004 Norwegian Championship. However, subsequently a two-game play-off match with co-leader and until so, half-dozen-time Norwegian champion, Berge Ostenstad was drawn, Østenstad was declared winner on tiebreak. In the 2005 Norwegian Chess Championship, Carlsen once more finished in a shared first identify, this time with his mentor Simen Agdestein. A rapid game playoff between them resulted in Agdestein's victory by 3.5-2.five (+ii -1 =3). Carlsen finally won the Norwegian Title in 2006, after defeating Simen Agdestein in a necktie-break match.

Carlsen's beginning and and and then far simply participation in the continental championship provided a solid 22-signal boost to his rating when he scored 8/xiii in the European Championship (2005).

<Earth>: Carlsen qualified for the FIDE World Title Knockout Tournament (2004), but was eliminated in the showtime circular tiebreaker by Levon Aronian. His hopes to become a contender for the World Championship in the future took a large step forward by placing 10th at the World Cup (2005), condign the youngest player e'er to qualify for the Candidates. In his beginning Candidates match in Elista in May, he drew 3-iii in the six dull games of the Globe Championship Candidates (2007) before losing in rapid-play necktie-breaks. He reached the terminal four in the World Cup (2007) earlier beingness defeated in the semi-finals by the eventual winner, Gata Kamsky. Carlsen's final placing in the 2007 World Cup qualified him for participation in the FIDE Thousand Prix for 2008-09. Soon afterwards he tied for showtime identify in the Baku M Prix (2008), the starting time round of FIDE'due south inaugural Grand Prix serial. Carlsen later withdrew from the Grand Prix cycle despite his fantabulous result in Baku, complaining about "dramatic changes to ... regulations." and that 'changing the rules dramatically in the middle of a bicycle is simply unacceptable.'

On the basis of his rating, Carlsen qualified for the Candidates Tournament that would make up one's mind the challenger to Globe Champion Viswanathan Anand in 2012. In Nov 2010, however, Carlsen announced he was withdrawing from the Candidates tournament. Carlsen described the 2008â€"12 bicycle equally not "...sufficiently modern and off-white", and added 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 Globe Champion has had to go through since Kasparov, puzzling ranking criteria too as the shallow ceaseless match-after-match concept are all less than satisfactory in my opinion." Carlsen qualified for the World Championship Candidates (2013) that was played in London, again on the basis of his rating. He placed =1st with Vladimir Kramnik on 8.5/fourteen afterward both players lost their concluding round games, only as the get-go tiebreaker (score against each other in the tournament which was i-ane) failed to break the tie, he won on the second tiebreak which stipulated that the player with the greater number of wins takes beginning place; he had scored five wins to Kramnik'due south 4. During the tournament, Carlsen set a new live rating tape of 2878.ix after he defeated Gelfand in round 10.

In November 2013, Carlsen won the Anand - Carlsen World Championship Lucifer (2013) that was staged in Chennai. The first 4 games were fatigued before Carlsen won the fifth and 6th games. The seventh and 8th games were drawn, with Carlsen then winning the ninth game and drawing the tenth and last game to win past 6.5-3.5 (+3 =seven).

World Championship Defense 2014

In Carlsen's first Globe Title title defense against Anand - who won the correct to challenge for the title by winning the World Title Candidates (2014) that was held in March 2014 - in Sochi in Russian federation in Nov 2014.

The commencement game of the Carlsen - Anand World Title Match (2014) was a fighting draw with Carlsen playing Black and successfully defending a Grunfeld. He drew first blood in game two playing the White side of a placidity Ruy Lopez, breaking down Black's defenses earlier the first time control. Afterward the offset rest day, Anand struck back strongly playing the White side of a Queen's Gambit Declined (D37), and overcame Carlsen before the first fourth dimension control. In game 4, Anand played the Sicilian but Carlsen steered the opening into a quiet positional struggle that ended in a draw. Game 5 featured a Queen's Indian Defense by Carlsen which too ended in a draw. Game 6 may take been the turning point in the match. Anand missed a uncomplicated tactical stroke as Blackness that would accept given him a very strong, if not winning position and the lead in the match. Subsequently missing this continuation, Anand's game weakened and Carlsen brought home the point to accept the lead in the match for the second time.

Game 7 was another Berlin Defense force by Anand who encountered difficulties and surrendered a piece for two pawns. However, his defense kept Carlsen at bay for 122 moves before the game was finally drawn due to insufficient mating textile on the board. Game eight in the match was another QGD, with Carlsen playing Black introducing an innovation from his dwelling training that guaranteed him a relatively easy depict. After another residual solar day, play resumed with Carlsen playing the White side of a Ruy Lopez that turned into a Berlin Defense by Anand. The game chop-chop came to an end through a draw past repetition, with Carlsen content to maintain his one-indicate lead. In Game ten, Carlsen again defended a Grunfeld, albeit not as assuredly as in Game i. Still, he defended a long initiative by Anand to secure a draw to continue to maintain his ane bespeak lead. Game xi was another Berlin Defense past Anand which turned into a complex and hard fought eye game following an innovation by Anand on the queenside, which was followed by an commutation sacrifice. Carlsen successfully defended to bring abode the final point needed to secure his championship for some other two years.

Friction match result: Carlsen won past vi.5-four.5 (+3 -i =vii).

Earth Championship Defense force 2016

Carlsen's second defence of his classical earth title was in November 2016, starting November 11th, in New York City. Sergey Karjakin won the right to challenge him by finishing clear commencement in the World Championship Candidates (2016). Carlsen retained his championship when he drew the classical games 6-6 (+one -one =ten) and won the rapid game tiebreaker 3-one (+2 =2). See Carlsen - Karjakin Earth Championship Match (2016) for more data.

World Title Defence 2018

Carlsen exercised his correct as Globe Champion to participate in the Globe Loving cup (2017), where he defeated the lowest seeded actor, Nigerian IM Oluwafemi Balogun in circular 1 and veteran Russian GM Aleksey Dreev in round ii. In round 3, however, Carlsen was eliminated by Bu Xiangzhi by 0.5-ane.v, having lost the first game to a sacrificial assail past the Chinese GM. In the Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match (2018), GM Carlsen successfully defended his world title for the 3rd fourth dimension when he vanquish Fabiano Caruana, the winner of the Globe Championship Candidates (2018) tournament.

World Championship Defense 2021

Carlsen won the Carlsen - Nepomniachtchi Globe Championship Match (2021). The first five games were drawn with Carlsen winning the sixth game in a brilliant 137 move marathon of a game that went on to be the longest game in earth championship history. The match was controversial in that some people felt that the challenger was "not fifty-fifty trying" soon after this game. Perhaps a psychological collapse? Nepo went on to lose three of the next four games thereby ending the match.

Classical Tournaments :

<2004-2007> Carlsen placed 3rd at the Sigeman & Co (2004) followed later that month with a solid =tertiary identify at the Politiken Cup 2004, a half betoken behind the leaders Darmen Sadvakasov and compatriot Leif Erlend Johannessen. In Oct 2005, he won the Gausdal Bygger'due north Masters in Norway with 8/9 ahead of 9 other grandmasters. He continued to improve in 2006, tying Alexander Motylev for beginning place in Corus Group B (2006). Later on several more strong performances during the year, including 6.5/9 at the Reykjavik Open (2006), =2nd at Bosna Sarajevo Tournament (2006), =2nd behind Sergei Shipov at the Midnight Sunday Challenge at Breivika videregaende skole in Norway, =2nd at Biel Int'l Festival (2006) (later beating the winner Alexander Morozevich twice), first at the Gausdal Classics GM-A and a articulation 2d-place finish at Morelia-Linares (2007), he crossed the 2700-mark, the youngest player e'er to do so. A relatively poor issue at Dortmund Sparkassen (2007) (3/7) was followed by a win at Biel Chess Festival (2007) (His score was equaled by Alexander Onischuk and and so they played a tie-breaker lucifer to determine the winner. After drawing two rapid and ii rush games, Carlsen won the Armageddon game) and a par for rating =second at the Arctic Chess Challenge (2007) where he scored 7/ix, a one-half indicate backside the leader Alexander Moiseenko, and 3rd at the Tal Memorial (2007) in Nov 2007.

<2008-2009> In 2008 Carlsen was the joint winner of Corus Group A (2008) A-Group together with Levon Aronian, and placed 2d in Morelia-Linares (2008) behind Anand. He won clear first place at Aerosvit (2008) with a ascendant viii/11 score. His "disappointing" 3rd placement at 41st Biel International Chess Festival (2008) with 6/10, a one-half point behind joint winners Leinier Dominguez Perez and Evgeny Alekseev, was still nonetheless a 2740 operation, whilst his equal second in the Grand Slam Chess Final (2008) with 5.0/10 was a 2768 performance. His relatively meagre seven/13 at Corus Group A (2009) was followed by equal second placement behind Kramnik at Dortmund Sparkassen (2009) with a 2773 performance and 2nd with 5/9 at the M-Tel Masters (2009). The arrival of Garry Kasparov in 2009 equally his coach enabled Carlsen'southward finest tournament performance to date, and 1 of the best tournament results in the history of chess. Carlsen eclipsed a stellar field consisting of Topalov, Peter Leko, Dmitry Jakovenko, Teimour Radjabov and Wang Yue to win articulate commencement prize with 8/x at the category XXI Pearl Leap Chess Tournament (2009). Carlsen'south functioning rating for the tournament was a record 3002 and lifted his FIDE rating in the November 2009 listing to 2801, which made him just the 5th player to surpass 2800, and easily the youngest. After a slow start, Carlsen placed equal second with Vasyl Ivanchuk behind Vladimir Kramnik in the Category XXI Tal Memorial (2009), which fielded 10 of the world's top xiii rated players. He saw out 2009 with a win at the London Chess Classic (2009), a betoken alee of Kramnik, a result which pushed him to the top of the world ratings in January 2010.

<2010-2012> In 2010, Carlsen'due south success continued, winning Corus Group A (2010) outright with eight.v/13, half a point ahead of joint 2nd place finishers Kramnik and Alexey Shirov. In June, he won the category XXI Male monarch's Tournament (2010) in Bazna in Romania by a clear ii points with 7.v/10 and a 2918 performance. Following mediocre performances at the 2010 Olympiad and the category XXII Grand Slam Chess Terminal (2010), Carlsen returned to grade by winning the category XXI Nanjing Pearl Spring Tournament (2010) outright with 7/10 (+4 -0 =6) and a 2901 rating functioning, a total indicate ahead of World Champion Anand who took outright 2nd with half-dozen/ten, and finishing the yr by winning the London Chess Classic (2010) for the second time in succession. Later on a slow outset in the Tata Steel Group A (2011) super tournament, Carlsen finished =third with Levon Aronian backside Hikaru Nakamura and Anand with 8/13 and a performance rating of 2821. He followed upwardly in June by winning the Bazna King's Tournament (2011) on tiebreak alee of Karjakin, both finishing with 6.5/10, and by winning Biel Chess Festival (2011) in July with a round to spare and with a terminal score of 7/10 (TPR 2835). After another characteristically slow start, Carlsen placed =1st with Ivanchuk at the Yard Slam Chess Final (2011) with xv points under the Bilbao scoring system (+3 -1 =six) and a 2842 performance rating, ultimately winning the tournament in a rush tiebreaker. Then in Nov 2011, Carlsen won the Tal Memorial (2011) on tiebreak with 5.5/9 (+two =vii -0 and a TPR of 2850) over Aronian. Carlsen finished 2011 with 3rd identify at the category 20 London Chess Archetype (2011) behind Kramnik and Nakamura, scoring +3 =five (TPR of 2879). 2012 started with =2nd (+iv -ane =8; TPR 2830) backside Aronian and alongside Radjabov and Fabiano Caruana at the Category 21 Tata Steel Grouping A (2012). He won the category 22 Tal Memorial (2012) outright with 5.5/9 (+2 =7) and a TPR of 2849. The calendar month after his strong results in the World Blitz he finished outright 2nd behind Wang Hao in the Grandmaster Tournament of the Biel Chess Festival (2012). In October 2012, Carlsen repeated his 2011 feat at Bilbao past winning the Yard Slam Chess Last (2012) in a tiebreaker, this fourth dimension against Caruana. He finished up 2012 by winning the London Chess Classic (2012), the third fourth dimension he has done and so, with a score of half-dozen.5/viii (+5 =3 -0) and a TPR of 2994 (only fractionally below his record endeavor at Pearl Springs in 2009). London 2012 was also made celebrated for the fact that Carlsen's effect lifted his Jan 2013 rating to a new record, exceeding Kasparov'southward record 2851 by 10 points.

<2013> Building on his achievements of 2012, Carlsen won the category twenty Tata Steel Group A (2013) tournament with a circular to spare, his concluding score being 10/13. He also gear up a new live rating tape of 2874 after his circular 12 win over Nakamura, although this was superseded at the Candidates in March. In May 2013 he played in the category 21 Norway Chess (2013) held in the Stavanger Region of Kingdom of norway and came 2nd with five.5/9, half a point behind the winner Sergey Karjakin; in the preliminary Norway Chess (Blitz) (2013) held to make up one's mind the draw, he came 2nd with 6/nine backside Karjakin, thereby earning 5 games equally White out of the 9 to be played. In June he once more came outright 2nd, this time at the category 22 Tal Memorial (2013), half a signal behind the winner Boris Gelfand. His last hit out before the Globe Championship lucifer against Anand in November 2013 was the category 22 double round robin Sinquefield Cup (2013), which he won outright with 4.5/6 (+iii =3; TPR of 2966).

<2014> Carlsen's first tournament as World Champion was the Zurich Chess Challenge (2014), the first ever category 23 tournament (average rating 2801). He came from backside to have equal first with Aronian in the Zurich Chess Claiming (Rush) (2014), which determined the colors in the chief event (Carlsen has 4 whites and ane black). By circular 4 of the standard time event, he extended his alive rating to 2882.6, breaking the record he established in round 3. His circular 5 draw with Anand enabled him to finish the standard time event in outset place, 2 scoring points alee of Aronian. He needed 3.5/5 in the Zurich Chess Claiming (Rapid) (2014) played on the last day to guarantee his win in the outcome, however his two/v result was sufficient to win the combined outcome by i point under the scoring system used. His adjacent outcome was the category 22 Gashimov Memorial (2014), a new event in honor of the tardily Azerbaijani cluster GM Vugar Gashimov, which he won outright with a score of 6.v/10, defeating Fabiano Caruana, his rival for first prize, in the last circular. Although he was the but undefeated thespian at the Norway Chess (2014), he won bereft games to win the issue, which was successfully defended past last yr'south winner, Sergei Karjakin. In August 2014, he played in the category 23 (just the 2d such force event) Sinquefield Loving cup (2014) and came outright 2d with 5.5/x, 3 points behind Caruana, the tournament'southward delinquent winner.

<2015> Following the successful defense of his title against Anand in November 2014, Carlsen won the Tata Steel Masters (2015) outright with a score of 9/13 (+6 -1 =half-dozen), his 6 wins scored in succession after starting the result poorly with two draws and a loss. In Apr 2015, Carlsen won the category 21 Gashimov Memorial (2015) outright for the second year in succession with a powerful score of 7/9 (+v =4), a full betoken articulate of a resurgent Viswanathan Anand, who was outright runner upwards with 6/9. This high was followed by a low at the category 22 Kingdom of norway Chess (2015) in Stavanger in June 2015, when he crashed and burned to his worst tournament result in about a decade. Subsequently losing his first round game on time to Topalov in a won position, Carlsen never recovered and registered a 3.5/9 (+2-4=iii) consequence that slashed 23 points from his rating. A wearisome start in the category 22 Sinquefield Cup (2015) following an early loss to Topalov, was followed by three successive wins which enabled Carlsen to describe level with the leader by round 5, before the rest 24-hour interval. Nonetheless, a crucial loss to Grischuk from an advantageous position and missed opportunities to win against Nakamura relegated him to equal 2nd in the issue, a point behind the outright winner Levon Aronian. This result too caused him to shed a few ratings points.

Still struggling with his form, Carlsen began his campaign at the category 23 London Chess Classic (2015) with his characteristic slow start, but was able to finish equal first in the 9th and terminal circular with a win over Alexander Grischuk, scoring 5.5/9 alongside Anish Giri and a surging Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. A three way rapid game tiebreak resulted in Carlsen winning the tournament as well as the Grand Chess Tour of 2015. He finished 2015 with a flourish when he won the powerful Qatar Masters (2015) by sharing start with an undefeated 7/nine, then winning 2-0 in the blitz playoff against Yu Yangyi. His tiebreak wins confronting Yu Yangyi also elevated him back to world #one in blitz.

<2016> The year started in the best possible way for Carlsen when he scored 9/thirteen to win outright at the category 20 Tata Steel Masters (2016) outcome, a point ahead of Caruana and Ding Liren. This was his 5th win at Wijk aan Zee, tying with Anand for the record number of wins at this event, which has been running since 1938. In April, he won the Norway Chess (2016) consequence for the offset time, scoring 6/ix to finish outright first, a half point ahead of outright second placed Aronian who won their individual game; Carlsen likewise won the preliminary Norway Chess (Blitz) (2016) with 7.v/9, a point ahead of outright second placed Giri, to win the right to v starts every bit white in the nine round primary tournament. In July, Carlsen emerged as the outright winner of the Bilbao Masters (2016), well ahead of the runner up Nakamura.

<2017> Wesley And then bankrupt Carlsen'southward winning run at Wijk aan Zee, with the latter finishing outright second on 8/thirteen at the Tata Steel Masters (2017). In April Carlsen finished equal 2nd aslope Caruana with 4/vii (+1=6), a point and a half backside outright winner Aronian at the category 20 GRENKE Chess Classic (2017). After easily winning the Norway Chess (Blitz) (2017) to determine the draw for the chief event, Carlsen returned his worst result in over a decade to score 4/ix at the category 22 Kingdom of norway Chess (2017), narrowly missing out on final place and coming to inside one game of losing his number 1 earth ranking. He regained some course at the category 22 Sinquefield Cup (2017), placing second with 5.v/nine, half a point backside the winner Vachier-Lagrave, the merely player who defeated Carlsen in this event. He seems to take returned to form with an uncontested start place in the powerful Mann Masters (2017), finishing with seven.5/nine, half a point clear of Anand and Nakamura, and likewise boosting his rating back to 2837 (live), his best since April 2017. His equal tertiary at the London Chess Archetype (2017) enabled him to win the 2017 Grand Chess Tour.

<2018> The new year saw a continuation of Carlsen's improved form when he won the Tata Steel Masters (2018) in a 2 game blitz tiebreaker from Giri, after both finished on 9/13. This also improved his rating to its highest (2843) since November 2016. His 2nd identify to Fabiano Caruana, the next Challenger for Magnus's championship, with 5.5/nine at the GRENKE Chess Classic (2018) in March 2018 was followed in the next calendar month by Carlsen returning to the winner'due south circumvolve by winning the category 22 Gashimov Memorial (2018), half a betoken clear from the runner-up Ding Liren, who incidentally reached his peak rating and ranking (world #5) to date for his result in this issue. Later on a promising start in the start round of the Kingdom of norway Chess (2018) when he defeated his next title challenger and winner of the 2018 Candidates tournament, Fabiano Caruana, Carlsen lost a game to Wesley So and conceded the atomic number 82 to Caruana, who ultimately won the tournament; Carlsen placed equal second with 4.5/8, one-half a betoken from the lead. Afterward his best first in a major tournament in recent years with 2 wins in the commencement two rounds, Carlsen gradually lost basis in the category 20 Biel (2018) with a string of draws, culminating in a loss in the penultimate round to Shakhriyar Mamedyarov which enabled the latter to win the event with a round to spare. At Sinquefield Loving cup (2018) he was in a three mode necktie for first with Levon Aronian and Fabiano Caruana, all 3 with +ii -0 =7.

<2019>He also participated and took first place at Tata Steel Masters (2019) scoring 9/thirteen (+5 -0 =8) and then at the Gashimov Memorial (2019) took first again, 7/9 (+5 -0 =iv). And once again first at GRENKE Chess Classic (2019) with vii.5/9 (+half dozen -0 =3) Another tournament Norway Chess (2019), another first 10.5/16 (+6 -1 =nine). And as usual start, this time at GCT Croatia (2019), viii/11 (+5 -0 =6). Tied for first at Sinquefield Loving cup (2019) with Ding Liren, but and then lost the tiebreaker with him =2 -2. At Mann Grand Swiss (2019) he only managed 3rd-8th.

<2020> In Jan he took part one time again at Tata Steel Masters (2020) taking 2nd 8/xiii to Caruana's impressive beginning place x/13. In june he played the Clutch International (2020) where he won the 8 actor event. Another 8 role player event was Norway Chess (2020) where he won starting time with 19.five a point alee of Firouzja.

<2021
A disappointing commencement for the year with a 6th place at Tata Steel Masters (2021) where the local heroes Jorden van Foreest and Giri won with 8.5/13.

Rapid :

Carlsen won the Glitnir Blitz Tournament in 2006 in Republic of iceland. In September 2006 Carlsen placed 8th out of 16 participants at the Earth Blitz Title (2006) in Rishon LeZion, Israel. In the blitz tournament associated with the Tal Memorial 2006, namely the Tal Blitz Cup, Carlsen scored 17½/34 points and placed 9th in a group of 18 participants. In March 2007, Carlsen played for the first time in the Melody Amber blind and rapid chess tournament in Monte Carlo. In the eleven rounds of the 16th Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2007), he accomplished eight draws and 3 losses (placing =ninth) and so scored three wins, 7 draws and one loss in the 16th Amber Tournament (Rapid) (2007) (=2nd), for an overall eighth place in the combined tournament. In March 2008, Carlsen played for the second time in the Melody Bister blind and rapid chess tournament, which was held in Nice for the showtime time. Carlsen achieved four wins, four draws and two losses in the Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2008), and three wins, two losses, and six draws in the Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2008), resulting in a shared second place in the overall tournament.

In the Chess Classic Mainz (2008), Carlsen finished in second place after losing the concluding to defending champion Anand 3:i (2 losses, two draws). 2009 saw Carlsen score equal beginning in the Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2009) with vii/11 alongside Kramnik and Aronian, and equal 2d with Veselin Topalov at Thou-Tel Masters (2009) backside Shirov with a 2822 performance. He also won the XXII Magistral Ciudad de Leon (2009), a rapid knockout tournament, alee of Morozevich, Ivanchuk, and Wang Yue. Just a few days after his 2nd placement at the Tal Memorial (2009), he won the World Blitz Championship (2009) with 31/42, a total three points ahead of runner-upwardly Anand. He shared first place at the 2010 Amber Rapid and Blindfold Tournament with Ivanchuk; scoring six½ points in the blindfold and viii points in the rapid, Carlsen accumulated 14½ from a possible 22 points. Afterward a slow start in the Arctic Securities Chess Stars (2010) rapid tournament, he continued his success by defeating Anand in the two-game playoff for gold. In the World Rush Championship (2010), held in Moscow on 16â€"18 November, Carlsen attempted to defend his 2009 title. With a score of 23½/38, he finished in third identify backside Radjabov and the winner Aronian. Afterwards the tournament, Carlsen played a private 40-game blitz match against Hikaru Nakamura, winning with a score of 23½â€"16½. A astounding 9.5/xi, 2.five points clear of the field, in 20th Amber Tournament (Rapid) (2011) was bereft for him to win the overall contest, equally his results in the 20th Bister Tournament (Blindfold) (2011) were poor, resulting in a 2nd overall to 2008 and 2009 overall winner Aronian. In July 2012 he came articulate 2nd in the World Rapid Championship (2012) behind Karjakin with 10.5/xv, and clear second in the World Blitz Championship (2012) with xix.5/thirty, half a indicate backside Alexander Grischuk.

In June 2014, he realized his ambition to be the triple champion (of standard, rapid and blitz chess) when he won the World Rapid Championship (2014) with 11/15, half a point ahead of runner-upwards Caruana, and the Globe Blitz Championship (2014) with 17/21, 1 betoken clear of Nepomniachtchi and Nakamura. In October 2015, he successfully backed up to defend his title at the World Rapid Championship (2015), scoring eleven.v/15, a point clear of runners-up Leinier Dominguez Perez, Teimour Radjabov and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Carlsen was 2d in the Paris G Chess Tour, placing second to Nakamura in the Chiliad Chess Tour Paris Rapid (2016) and equal beginning in the Thousand Chess Tour Paris Blitz (2016) alongside Nakamura to accept 2nd place behind the Us grandmaster. Soon afterward, he was overall get-go in the Leuven legs of the M Chess Tour, having won both the Your Next Move (Rapid) (2016) and the Your Next Move (Blitz) (2016). Carlsen won his last event earlier the upcoming Carlsen - Karjakin Earth Championship Match (2016) in New York, when he won the last of the Carlsen - Nakamura Chess.com Rush Battle (2016) confronting Hikaru Nakamura. Carlsen obtained a large pb after the 5m+2spm and 3m+2spm sections and narrowly lost the bullet 1m+1spm with a final score of 14.5-10.5.

He placed equal start with 11/15 alongside Ivanchuk and Grischuk at the World Rapid Championship (2016), but placed third on countback. His unsuccessful attempt to defend his crown at the World Blitz Title (2016) was a similarly tight affair, with Carlsen losing on countback to the 2016 Earth Championship Challenger Sergei Karjakin, both scoring 16.5/21. The following year in 2017, Carlsen won both the Paris and Leuven legs of the Grand Chess Tour of 2017 to lead the competition alee of the Sinquifield and London legs to be staged later in 2017: he won the Thousand Chess Tour Paris (Rapid) (2017) with 7/9 ahead of Grischuk and backed up with equal fourth at the Grand Chess Tour Paris (Rapid) (2017) to win the Paris leg on aggregate. At Leuven, Carlsen was 3rd with five.5/9 at the Your Next Motion (Rapid) (2017) and clear winner past four points at the Your Next Move (Blitz) (2017) to take out the Leuven leg on amass.

Carlsen regained his blitz title at Riyadh in Saudi Arabia when he won the World Rush Championship (2017) with a round to spare after the disappointment of losing the lead in the World Rapid Title (2017) when he lost the last round.

At the World Rapid Championship (2018) he tied 2d-5th with ten.5/15 (+9 -3 =3)Then at the World Blitz Championship (2018) he managed clear start 17/21 (+xiii -0 =8). And oce once again at M Chess Tour Republic of cote d'ivoire (Rapid & Rush) (2019) took first xix/27 (+13 -2 =12) One and one one-half points alee of the field. No surprise at Lindores Abbey Chess Stars (2019) where he took first 3.5/half dozen (+1 -0 =5) in the iv actor field. He only managed 6th at GCT St. Louis Rapid & Blitz (2019) finishing with a minus score 13/27 (+nine -ten =viii) He took role in World Blitz Championship (2019) where he tied with Nakamura for first, both with 16.5/21 (+xiii -1 =seven). There were many online rapid and blitz events in 2020 and 2021 with Magnus winning his off-white share.

Matches :

The DSB Bank lucifer between Loek van Wely and Magnus Carlsen took place 28th Apr - 1st May 2006. The four game classical fourth dimension limit friction match was tied ii-2. Carlsen won the blitz portion of the match iii.v-0.five. He won a rapid lucifer against Peter Leko held in Miskolc, Republic of hungary, scoring 5:3 (+2 =6). Carlsen played in a curtain raiser to the Norwegian Championship, winning the Carlsen - Predojevic Rapid Match (2013) past 2.5-1.5 (+1 =three); the match was organized by the "Nansen Heart for Peace and Dialogue" to gloat the long-continuing relationship betwixt Lillehammer and Sarajevo. (1)

Team :

<Olympiad>: Carlsen represented Kingdom of norway on board ane in the Calvia Olympiad (2004), the Turin Olympiad (2006), the Dresden Olympiad (2008), the Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad (2010), the Tromso Olympiad (2014) and in the Baku Olympiad (2016). His best outcome was in the 2006 Olympiad, where he scored six points from 8 games and came fifth for lath one. In 2016, he scored 7.v/10 placing sixth on board one, assisting his 12th seeded Norwegian squad to place fifth.

<National> He played board 1 for Norway at the European Team Championship (2007) and won an individual silver medal. He again played board ane for Norway at the European Team Championship (2015), just returned a very poor upshot with 3.5/7, losing another xvi rating points to bring him down to his lowest rating (2834) since January 2012.

<Gild> Carlsen played four seasons in the European Lodge Loving cup. In 2001 and 2003 he played for Asker Norway on board half-dozen and board 1 (later on he had gained his FM title) respectively, while his father Henrik was reserve on both occasions. In 2007 he played board iii for OS Baden Baden, and in 2008 he played top board for MIKA Yerevan. His total game result from these iv seasons was 15.5/27 (+11 -7 =9). He too played in the Norwegian Team Championship in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006, in the Bundesliga in the 2004-05, 2006-07, 2007/08, 2008-09 seasons, and in the Dutch Team Championship 2007.

<Other Team> In Baronial 2006, he played in the NH Hotels event featuring the older Experience Squad vs Youth team (easily won by the Youth team 28â€"22), and was equal top scorer with Alexander Yard Beliavsky with 6.v/x.

Ratings and rankings :

The highest official rating achieved by Carlsen to date was 2882 in May 2014. His highest live rating was 2889.2 on 21 Apr 2014. Both are the highest ratings ever accomplished for the slow version of the game.

By the end of the August 2021 rating menstruation, Carlsen had been globe number i for a total of 133 months. He holds the record for the longest period equally the earth'southward pinnacle ranked Junior (U20) - 36 months - from one January 2008 until 31 Dec 2010. Carlsen was also both world number 1 junior and world number ane player for the first ten months of 2010. Furthermore, he holds the record for the highest rating acquired by any thespian aged 13, and 17 through to 24 inclusive.

960 Chess

In February 2018, Carlsen lifted the unofficial world crown for 960 Chess from Hikaru Nakamura, winning their friction match past 14-x.

Other :

Carlsen won the Chess Oscars for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 and he was also awarded Kingdom of norway'south almanac Peer Gynt Prize for 2011 for beingness "a person or institution that has achieved distinction in society". (ii) Afterwards he won the World Championship he was awarded Norway'south "Proper name of the Twelvemonth" honor for 2013. (3) His male parent is Henrik Carlsen and he has two sisters, Ellen Oen Carlsen and Ingrid Oen Carlsen. Carlsen helped Anand prepare for the Globe Chess Championships in 2007 and 2008 and 2010. Carlsen has modeled for G-Star Raw, starting with its Fall/Winter 2010 advertising campaign.

At the Sohn Briefing held in New York in May 2015, Carlsen demonstrated his skill past playing three players in a blindfold clock simul. Carlsen and each of the three players were given nine minutes. Carlsen won 3-0. A video of the event can be seen at the link in footnote (iv) . On September 22, 2016 he was in New York City to play a simul confronting eleven users of the Play Magnus mobile app. Everybody had thirty minutes on their clocks. Magnus won 11 to 0 (Carlsen Play Live Simul (2016)).

General Sources :

Carlsen's FIDE actor card; Wikipedia article: Magnus Carlsen ; Everipedia article: https://everipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_... live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/ ; official website: http://www.magnuscarlsen.com/ ; blogs: http://world wide web.arcticsec.no/index.php?b... (English linguistic communication); http://simonsenlaw.no/ (Norwegian language); World Championship Index: http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/wcc... ; and Olimpbase, the Encyclopedia of Team Chess: http://www.olimpbase.org/

Footnotes :

(1) Magnus Carlsen and Borki Predojevic play in Lillehammer - http://world wide web.peace.no/index.php?optio...
(2) Chess star wins prestigious award - http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/03...
(3) Magnus Carlsen vant tre av tre priser på Idrettsgallaen - http://world wide web.nrk.no/sport/videoklipp/...
(4) Carlsen blitzes blindfold clock simul - http://en.chessbase.com/post/carlse...