[76], Playing in Group A of the 71st Corus chess tournament, Carlsen tied for fifth with a 2739 PR. Anand retained the world title by beating Veselin Topalov in 2010. This will be Yangyi Yu’s first time playing in Altibox Norway Chess. He uses a variety of openings to make it more difficult for opponents to prepare against him and reduce the effect of computer analysis. "[87], In early 2009 Carlsen engaged former World Champion Garry Kasparov as a personal trainer. [91], Carlsen won the 72nd Corus chess tournament played 16–31 January with 8½ points. [64], Carlsen reached the semi-final round of the World Chess Cup in December, after defeating Michael Adams in the round of 16 and Ivan Cheparinov in the quarterfinals. 4. In 2007 at the age of 14, he became the youngest Grandmaster in the history of the United States, beating the record set by Bobby Fischer. [103] His team, Norway, finished 51st out of 149 teams. With a score of 23½/38, he finished in third place behind Radjabov and winner Levon Aronian. At the 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia, So also won a gold medal for the Philippines. Carlsen, playing white, won in 43 moves. In the first round he obtained a winning position against Topalov after pressing in a long endgame, only to lose on time when he mistakenly thought that he would receive 15 minutes of extra time at move 60. Ranked number 3 in the world. In the main event (a category 22 ten-player round robin), he won two games and drew seven. [155], Carlsen had a poor result in the third edition of Norway Chess, held 15–26 June. [5] Carlsen showed an aptitude for intellectual challenges at a young age: at two years, he could solve 50-piece jigsaw puzzles; at four, he enjoyed assembling Lego sets with instructions intended for children aged 10–14. [33] Carlsen played in the FIDE World Chess Championship, thus becoming the youngest player ever to participate in one, but was knocked out in the first round by Levon Aronian. He finished first in the rapid portion of the tournament with 12/18 (+5−2=2; two points for a win) and also first in the blitz portion with 11/18 (+7−3=8) to place first overall with a score of 23/36, two and a half points ahead of the runner-up, Wesley So. Also during this tournament, Carlsen recorded his first victory over Anish Giri in a classical game. Simen Agdestein emphasises Carlsen's exceptional memory, stating that he was able to recall the areas, population numbers, flags and capitals of all the countries in the world by the age of five. This year Carlsen (Norway), Aronian (Armenia), and Caruana (USA) are joined by young stars Jan-Krzysztof Duda (Poland) and Alireza Firouzja (FIDE). The next month he won the Geneva Masters rapid event. 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Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, born in April 1985, is an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster. [184], In September, he took part in the Chess World Cup 2017. [345][346][347] He said in 2015 that the middlegame is his favourite part of the game as it comes down to "pure chess". The logic of Carlsen’s decision was obvious: he is the best fast chess player in the world, and so he would be favored in the tie-break games, … With this win, he became the first player in chess history to have won the World Championship in three different formats: knockout, tournament, and match. Carlsen faced Sergey Karjakin in the 2016 World Chess Championship in New York City. 1, as well as the first player from a Western nation to reach the top of the FIDE rankings since Bobby Fischer in 1971. Magnus Carlsen wins Norway Chess, his 10th title of the year ... Carlsen leaped to 19.5 points after nine rounds in this six-player double round … His ninth-round loss to Kramnik ended a streak of 36 rated games undefeated. Ultimately, he placed ninth in the round-robin tournament with 4/9 (+1−2=6), losing to Aronian and Kramnik and winning against Karjakin. [81], In the Tal Memorial, played from 5 to 14 November, Carlsen started with seven straight draws, but finished with wins over former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov and Peter Leko. In 2018, he played in Altibox Norway Chess for the second time, finishing 3rd. 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The 6th edition of Norway Chess begins tomorrow. [318][319], The Norwegian tabloid Verdens Gang (VG) has awarded Carlsen the "Name of the Year" (Årets navn) twice, in 2009[320] and 2013. 2. [225] Over the next two days, from 29 December to 30 December he took part in the 2019 World Blitz Chess Championship. "[210][211] Later in April, Carlsen won the 6th Grenke Chess Classic. Each of the 10 rounds consists of a classical game where a win is worth 3 … Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbajian). [124], At the 74th Tata Steel Chess Tournament held on 14–29 January in Wijk aan Zee, Carlsen finished in a shared second place with 8/13, behind Aronian, and equal with Radjabov and Caruana. He becomes the European blitz champion in 2010 and again in 2012. Carlsen retained his title by defeating Caruana 3–0 in rapid tiebreak games. [178], Carlsen played in the Paris leg of the 2017 Grand Chess Tour, which was held from 21 to 25 June. He was automatically seeded to the semifinal round, as the unofficial Fischer Random Chess champion. [109], Carlsen's next tournament was the Pearl Spring chess tournament on 19–30 October in Nanjing, China, against Anand, Topalov, Vugar Gashimov, Wang Yue, and Étienne Bacrot. He started well, scoring 2 wins and 4 draws in his first 6 games, but missed mate-in-3 versus Giri in round 7, which Giri described as "the most embarrassing moment" of Carlsen's career. He also defeated the winner Wang in both of their individual games. [147] He went on to claim the World Blitz Championship two days later, becoming the first player to simultaneously hold the title in all three FIDE rated time controls. From 29 January to 4 February, Carlsen played in the Zurich Chess Challenge, winning the blitz event (+2−1=2) and the classical event (+3−0=2). FIDE’s Laws of Chess will apply. He scored 7½/9 (+6−0=3), half a point ahead of Nakamura and Anand, for a performance rating of 2903. In 2007, Wesley So went on to become the youngest National Junior Open Chess Champion and won the gold medal on board one, at the World Under16 Team Championships. Both games were drawn, which left Østenstad the champion because he had superior tiebreaks in the tournament. Later, Carlsen had memorised the areas, population numbers, coat-of-arms and administrative centres of "virtually all" 356 Norwegian municipalities. [46] Nonetheless, in the playoff held from 19 to 21 September, Carlsen won 3–1. During his early years, he moved between Finland and Belgium with his family before returning to Norway in 1998. [16] Apart from chess, which he studied about three to four hours a day, Carlsen's favourite pastimes included playing football and reading Donald Duck comics. And at age 6 he started training with his first coach, the renowned National Master Bruce Pandolfini. [227] During the tournament, Carlsen surpassed Sergei Tiviakov's unbeaten streak in classical chess of 110 games. He won in 2018. Along with Carlsen, the finals consisted of World Champion Anand and the highest two scorers from the preliminary stage held in Shanghai in September: Kramnik and Shirov. [88] In September their partnership was revealed to the public by Norwegian newspapers. ... Carlsen's repertoire is aimed at avoiding an early crisis in the game. [164] Carlsen then played in the second edition of the Qatar Masters Open, which was held from 20 to 29 December. Under Norway Chess’ new rules, he deserves to win. [231] During the tournament, Carlsen's unbeaten streak in classical chess was ended by Jan-Krzysztof Duda. Main sponsors "[348], Garry Kasparov, who coached Carlsen from 2009 to 2010, said that Carlsen has a positional style similar to that of past world champions such as Anatoly Karpov, José Raúl Capablanca, and Vasily Smyslov, rather than the tactical style of Alexander Alekhine, Mikhail Tal, and Kasparov himself. This was his second victory in the tournament over the former world No. With a performance rating of 2983, this was Carlsen's third best tournament result ever, behind only Nanjing 2009 (3002 TPR) and London 2012 (2994 TPR). [139], In the Sinquefield Cup, held in September, Carlsen finished first, scoring 4½/6 (+3−0=3), a point ahead of Nakamura.[140]. Although Fabiano did not win, he proved himself to be a very strong rival to Magnus Carlsen. In October 2015, Magnus successfully defended his title in the FIDE World Rapid Championships held in Berlin — the first World Rapid Champion in history to do so. Carlsen's placing awarded him 7 additional points in the Grand Chess Tour standings, which was enough to crown him the 2017 Grand Chess Tour champion. FIDE - World Chess Federation, Online ratings, individual calculations [17] Carlsen also practised skiing until the age of ten. Levon Aronian (Armenia). 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