Magnus Carlsen

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Magnus Carlsen (2016)
Magnus Carlsen (2016)
Surname Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen
Association NorwayNorway Norway
Born November 30, 1990
Tonsberg , Norway
title International Master (2003)
Grand Master (2004)
World Champion since 2013
Current  rating 2856 (December 2021)
Best rating 2882 ​​(May 2014 and August 2019)
Index card at FIDE (English)

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born November 30, 1990 in Tønsberg ) is a Norwegian chess player and world chess champion since 2013 .

In 2004 Carlsen achieved the title of grandmaster as the second youngest player at the time - at the age of 13 years, 4 months and 27 days. For the first time in January 2010 he reached the top position of the FIDE world rankings as the youngest player to date and has held it continuously since July 2011 until today. His Elo rating in May 2014 is 2882 points, the highest since the list was introduced in 1970. Only Bobby Fischer had a higher, retrospectively calculated historical rating .

With his victories in the World Chess Championship in 2021 , in the Rapid Chess World Championship in 2019 and the Blitz Chess Championship in 2019, he is the world champion in classical chess, in rapid and blitz chess . In the variant Fischer Random Chess , he is vice World Champion behind world champion Wesley So .

family

Carlsen is the son of the engineer couple Sigrun Øen and Henrik Albert Carlsen. His mother is a chemist in an environmental agency, his father was a manager at Exxon and SAP before he quit this job after his son's first successes and looked after his son's career. The family lived in Espoo for a year and then in Brussels ; In 1997 she moved to Lommedalen ( Bærum ) in Norway. From there she later moved to Haslum (Bærum). As a two-year-old Carlsen was able to put together a puzzle from 50 pieces. He learned the rules of chess from his father at the age of five, but initially wasn't particularly interested in the game. Even as a child, he was noted for his excellent memory. The first chess book he read was Bent Larsen's Finn Plan .

Carlsen's sister Ellen Øen Carlsen, who was one and a half years older, also played chess. In 2007 she won the Nordic Championship in her age group at the age of seventeen. In 2014 she was 10th on the Norwegian women's rankings. At the beginning of March 2014 she competed in the chess match between Norway and Germany in Berlin. It is now listed as "inactive" by the world association FIDE. Carlsen also has two younger sisters.

Early successes

Magnus Carlsen played his first chess tournament in July 1999. A year later he won the Norwegian championship for under-eleven year olds. He played his first international tournament in October 2000 at the Open in Bad Wiessee , where he scored 4.5 points from nine games. In September 2001 he played for his club Asker SK at the European Team Championship in Panormos . At the U12 World Cup in Heraklion in 2002, he came in second with nine points from eleven games. The first standard for the title of International Master he achieved in January 2003 at the tournament in Gausdal ; the title was awarded to him in August of the same year. In the same year he finished 3rd at the European Youth Championship and 9th place at the World Youth Championship.

Achievement of the grandmaster title

Magnus Carlsen (2005)

Magnus Carlsen secured all three grandmaster norms within four months in early 2004 in a series of excellent tournament results. He achieved his first GM norm with an outstanding victory and 10.5 / 13 points in group C of the renowned Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee. It was the first sensational appearance of the young talented chess. Magnus Carlsen achieved his two other GM standards at the Aeroflot Open in Moscow in February and at the Dubai Open in April 2004.

At a blitz tournament in Reykjavík in March 2004, he made headlines by beating ex-world champion Anatoly Karpov . Through this performance he qualified for the subsequent rapid chess tournament, which was played in the knockout system . In the first round, thirteen-year-old Carlsen met Kasparov, who, with an Elo rating of 2831, was the clear leader in the world rankings. In the first game with White, Carlsen had an extra pawn and scored a draw , but then lost with Black in 32 moves.

In June 2004 Carlsen took part in the FIDE World Championship in Tripoli , but lost there in the first round 1.5: 2.5 against Levon Aronjan . In July 2005, he shared first place in the Norwegian national championship with his coach Simen Agdestein in Sandnes , but lost the playoff for the title. After a placement battle against Gata Kamsky , which he lost 1: 3 (1: 1 after tournament games, 0: 2 after rapid chess games), at the 2005 Chess World Cup in Chanty-Mansiysk , which was played according to the knockout system , Tenth and qualified with this result for the candidates tournament for the 2007 World Chess Championship, which was reintroduced by FIDE . Carlsen met Levon Aronjan in the first round of the candidate fights in Elista and lost 5-7 after a playoff.

In February 2006 he won the B tournament in Wijk aan Zee together with Alexander Motyljow . A month later he won a very busy blitz tournament in Reykjavík, where he eliminated Viswanathan Anand among others . At the Chess Olympiad in Turin he played on the top board for Norway and scored six points from eight games. In August, at the NH Chess Tournament in Amsterdam , where young talents competed against experienced grandmasters, he achieved the best junior result with 6.5 points from ten games and was invited to the highly endowed Melody Amber tournament in Monaco. In September he came at the Norwegian national championship in Moss, as in the previous year, tied with Agdestein in first place. Carlsen, who at that time was already ahead of Agdestein in the world rankings, retaliated for 2005 and won the playoff. It was Carlsen's last participation in Norwegian championships. In April 2007 he won the Gausdal Chess Classics with seven points from nine games.

Belonging to the top of the world

2007

In August 2007 Magnus Carlsen won the GM tournament in Biel after a playoff for first place against Alexander Onischuk . In December 2007 he reached the semifinals of the FIDE World Cup , but was eliminated by Gata Kamsky . By reaching the semifinals, he qualified for the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2010 .

2008

Carlsen 2008 at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden

In January 2008, Carlsen won the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee together with the Armenian Levon Aronjan . Both achieved  eight points from 13 games among the 14 participants with an Elo average of 2742 ( category 20). At the chess tournament in Linares , Carlsen took second place behind world champion Anand with an Elo rating of over 2800 . In June 2008 Carlsen won the Aerosvit tournament in Foros (Elo average 2711, category 19) by a whole point over his eleven competitors.

Carlsen finished the Chess Masters Bilbao 2008 in Spain (September 2nd to 13th) with three wins, two defeats and four draws in second place behind Wesselin Topalow . During this tournament, according to unofficial calculations, Carlsen was number 1 in the world rankings for five days ahead of Anand, which was the subject of numerous press reports.

2009

Magnus Carlsen (2009)

Between the beginning of 2009 and March 2010, the young Norwegian was trained and advised by ex-world champion Garri Kasparow .

In October 2009 Carlsen won the super tournament in Nanjing (category 21) with eight points from ten games unbeaten, 2.5 points ahead of runner-up Topalow and with an Elo performance of 3002. In November, he finished at the Tal Memorial in Moscow, the divided 2nd place and won the subsequent world blitz chess championship . In December he took first place in the London Chess Classic (category 18) with five points from seven games (+3 = 4).

2010

Carlsen topped the January 2010 FIDE world rankings with a rating of 2810, making him the youngest player since the world rankings were introduced. In January 2010 he won the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee (category 19) with 8.5 points from 13 games. In June 2010 he won the Kings Tournament (category 20) in Bazna, Romania, with 7.5 points from ten games.

Shortly afterwards, Carlsen performed below his expectations at the Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk , where he played for Norway on the first board and achieved 4.5 points from eight games. At the Grand Slam Final Masters in Bilbao in October 2010, his performance was well behind his classification, he achieved third place with four participants behind the winner Wladimir Kramnik and Anand. At the tournament in Nanjing he overcame his short-term form crisis, remained unbeaten and won with seven points from ten games ahead of Anand.

In early November 2010, Carlsen announced that it would not participate in the 2011 Candidates Tournament.

Carlsen won the London Chess Classic , which lasted from December 8th to 15th, 2010 with four wins, two defeats and one draw after being scored ahead of Anand and McShane . After losing to McShane in the first round and against Anand, both with Black, in the third round, he improved himself and freed himself in the penultimate round in the game against Kramnik - again with Black - from an extremely difficult position, so this The game ended in a draw.

2011

On the FIDE world rankings from January 2011 Carlsen took first place again with 2814 Elo points.

At the last edition of the Melody Amber tournament in Monaco in 2011, Carlsen took second place in the overall standings (behind Aronjan) and won the rapid chess section. In June 2011 he won the tournament in Bazna again with 6.5 points from ten games, due to a better score in front of Sergei Karjakin with the same number of points . As a result, he ousted Viswanathan Anand again in July 2011 from the top of the world rankings, which he had led from March to June.

In July 2011 he won the tournament in Biel with seven points from ten games. In October 2011 he won the 4th Masters Final, which was held in São Paulo and Bilbao, after a playoff against Vasyl Ivanchuk .

The 6th  Tal Memorial 2011, which took place in Moscow from November 16-25, 2011, was won by Magnus Carlsen due to the tie-break rule (the player with the most black games is preferred) ahead of Aronjan, who was tied on points, with two wins each and seven draws; Carlsen played with the black pieces five times, while Aronjan played four games with black. According to most of the other criteria, Aronjan would have been just ahead.

At the 3rd  London Chess Classic 2011 Magnus Carlsen took 3rd place behind Kramnik and Nakamura , against whom he won, with five draws and three wins.

2012

Magnus Carlsen (2012)

The 74th  Tata Steel chess tournament 2012, which took place from January 13th to 29th in Wijk aan Zee, ended Magnus Carlsen - tied with Caruana and Radjabov (eight points each from 13 games) - in shared second place; After he had to accept a defeat against Karjakin in the ninth round with the white pieces, it was no longer possible for him in the following four rounds to defeat the eventual tournament winner Lewon Aronjan, whom Carlsen had defeated in the third round with the white pieces. to endanger. In June 2012, Carlsen won the 7th Tal Memorial in Moscow. He got 5.5 points from nine games in this tournament and was the only player without a defeat. At the rapid and blitz chess world championship held from July 1 to 11, 2012 in Astana , Kazakhstan , Magnus Carlsen was runner-up in both rapid and blitz chess. Carlsen also came second at the 45th International Chess Festival in Biel, which took place from July 21 to August 3, 2012. Although Carlsen defeated the tournament winner Wang Hao twice in the course of the tournament and was even without defeat, he was in the end due to the three- point rule behind Wang, as he had won more games. The 2012 Grand Slam final, which was held in São Paulo and Bilbao, was won by Carlsen after a blitz chess play-off against Caruana. In December 2012 he also won the fourth edition of the London Chess Classic .

2013

Magnus Carlsen (2013)

In January Magnus Carlsen won the Tata Steel chess tournament, which he had last won in 2008 and 2010 (at that time still under the name "Corus tournament"). In April he won the candidates' tournament for the 2013 World Chess Championship in London . Although he ended the tournament with a defeat against Peter Swidler , but since the tied Vladimir Kramnik also lost his last game, Carlsen was qualified as a challenger to defending champion Viswanathan Anand because of the larger number of games won .

In November 2013, Carlsen went to Chennai , Anand's hometown, to compete against him in the world championship . In the fifth lap he took the lead and expanded this to 6: 3 with further victories in laps six and nine. With a draw in the tenth game Carlsen few days before his 23rd birthday on 22 November, 2013 World Champion . He is the second youngest world chess champion. Only Garry Kasparov was younger when he won the title in 1985 at 22 years and almost 7 months (not counting Ruslan Ponomarjow as the youngest FIDE world champion at 18 years and 3 months).

2014

At the Zurich Chess Challenge from January 29th to February 4th, he won the main tournament in classical chess. In the subsequent rapid chess part of the tournament, which was won by Fabiano Caruana, he played weaker and only reached the fourth of six places. However, this result was enough to achieve first place in the tournament as a whole.

In April, he won the Memorial Tournament as for the deceased in January Azerbaijani grandmaster Vugar Gashimov discharged Shamkir Chess . In June he won both the world championship in rapid chess (11 points from 15 games) and the world championship in blitz chess (17 points from 21 games) in Dubai . At the Chess Olympiad in Tromsø in his home country, Carlsen played on the first board for Norway. In nine games he scored six points, losing to the German Arkadij Naiditsch and the Croatian Ivan Šarić , the last game he did not appear.

At the world championship match in Sochi from November 7th to 23rd, Carlsen defended his title. His opponent was Viswanathan Anand , who won the Candidates Tournament in March 2014 . Carlsen won three games, Anand one, seven ended in a draw.

2015

In January Carlsen won the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee (Netherlands) for the fourth time . In February he won the Grenke Chess Classic in Baden-Baden after a playoff against Arkadij Naiditsch. In June Carlsen finished seventh at Norway Chess 2015. In September Carlsen achieved second place at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis with 5 points from nine rounds .

Carlsen on the way to defending his title as rapid chess world champion 2015 -
in the 2nd round against Dennis Wagner

After his successes of the previous year, Carlsen traveled to the world rapid and blitz chess championships 2015 in Berlin from October 10th to 14th as a three-time title holder or "grandmaster of all classes". In the three-day Rapid World Championship over 15 rounds, he stayed in eight winning games and seven draws without losing games, was 8th after the first day, after the second day with 8 points, tied with Sergei Zhigalko, already in first place. and last lap on the third day with 11.5 points a whole point ahead of Jan Nepomnjaschtschi and Teimour Radjabov . Carlsen's win in the 12th round against Ivanchuk is an exciting key game on the way to defending his title.

At the two-day blitz chess world championship over 21 rounds, Carlsen was in first place with 9 points after the tenth game, ahead of Maxime Vachier-Lagrave with the same number of points , but lost the eleventh and last game of the day against Sergei Karjakin . After three more game losses the following day, including the 15th against eventual world champion Alexander Grischuk , Carlsen finished sixth.

In December, Carlsen took part in the Qatar Masters Open in Doha , his first open tournament since the Arctic Chess Challenge in August 2007. He scored 7 points from 9 games and won the tie-off for the tournament win against last year's winner Yu Yangyi with the same number of points 2-0 .

2016

In January Carlsen won the Tata Steel chess tournament for the fifth time. He scored nine points from 13 games (+5 = 8 −0) and was one point ahead of Fabiano Caruana and Ding Liren . In September Carlsen was part of the Norwegian team at the Chess Olympiad . He scored 7.5 points from ten games and thus had a large share in the fifth place of the Norwegian team. From November 11th to 30th, 2016 he played for the 2016 World Chess Championship against the challenger Sergei Karjakin. On November 30, 2016, his 26th birthday, Carlsen won the tie-break with +2 = 2 −0 after the twelve regular games ended in a tie (+1 = 10 −1).

2017

In the second half of January Carlsen took part in the Tata Steel chess tournament. He was second behind Wesley So from the USA with eight points from 13 games (+4 = 8 −1). In April, Carlsen took part in the Grenke Chess Open as defending champion after his victory in 2015. He achieved four points from six games (+1 = 5 −0) and finished second behind Levon Aronjan . In the first half of June Carlsen took part in the Altibox Norway Chess tournament in Stavanger . In the ten-man field, he finished ninth with the victory of Lewon Aronjan with four points from nine games (+1 = 6-2). In July he won the rapid chess / blitz tournament of the Grand Chess Tour in Leuven, Belgium, 3 points ahead of Wesley So (25.5 / 36). In August 2017, Carlsen took part in the very busy Sinqufield Cup . With 5.5 points from nine games (+3 = 5 −1) he finished second behind Maxime Vachier-Lagrave . In December 2017 he won the world blitz chess championship in Riyadh 1.5 points ahead of Sergey Karjakin and Viswanathan Anand .

2018

At the end of January Carlsen won the Tata Steel chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee . After 13 rounds he was with 9.0 / 13 (+5 = 8 −0) level on points with Anish Giri in first place and sat against him in two tie-break games ( blitz chess with 5 minutes thinking time plus 3 seconds per move ) through. He won the first game with White and accepted Giri's offer for a draw in the second game in a clearly better position. In February he won the unofficial world championship in Fischer random chess against Hikaru Nakamura with 14:10 points. In April 2018 Carlsen won the Shamkir Chess tournament for the third time after 2014 and 2015 with 6 points from nine games (+3 = 6 −0). At the end of August he won the Sinquefield Cup 2018 with 5.5 points from nine games (+2 = 7 −0) tied with Fabiano Caruana and Lewon Aronjan .

In November Carlsen defended his world title in London against the challenger Fabiano Caruana identified in the 2018 Candidates Tournament . After all twelve regular games had ended in a draw, Carlsen prevailed 3-0 in the tie-break in rapid chess . In December he won the world championship in blitz chess for the fourth time .

2019

In 2019, Carlsen won every tournament with classic time control without losing:

With a total of seven tournament victories, Carlsen is now the sole record winner of the tournament.

With the points for his tournament victory in Zagreb, he set the Elo record of 2882 points he set himself in 2014. The Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis was the first tournament with classic cooling time that it did not win in 2019. Although he did not lose a game with a classic time limit, he was defeated by Ding Liren in the tie- breaker and took second place.

In April he won the Cote d'Ivorie Rapid and Blitz in Ivory Coast , where he was the first world chess champion to ever take part in a chess tournament on the African continent.

At the first World Championship in Chess960 he was clearly defeated by Wesley So in the final with 2.5: 13.5 and had to give up his (until then only unofficial) title of Chess960 world champion .

In November 2019 Carlsen won the Tata Steel Chess India Rapid & Blitz tournament (part of the Grand Chess Tour) with 27 out of 36 points ahead of last year's winner Nakamura (23/36).

In December 2019 he won the world championship title in rapid chess for the third time with 11½ points from 15 rounds (+8 = 7 −0) and for the fifth time the world championship title in rapid chess with 16½ points from 21 rounds (+13 = 7 −1). In the end he was tied with Hikaru Nakamura . So the tie-break had to decide, which Carlsen won 1½: ½.

2020

Carlsen took part in the chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee again in 2020 and finished second there undefeated.

Since losing to Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov in Biel on July 31, 2018 , Carlsen has been in 125 tournament games with classic cooling time - that is, without rapid or blitz chess games - without defeats until the series was ended on October 10, 2020 by Jan-Krzysztof Duda . With 44 wins and 81 draws, Carlsen holds the record for the longest run of a world-class player without a loss.

With chess all over the world during the COVID-19 pandemic , Carlsen organized the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour , in which he won three of the four online tournaments and the final Grand Final . Overall, he won in 2020 for online tournaments 510,587 US dollars, making him the most successful e-sports worldwide.

2021

The 2021 World Chess Championship between Magnus Carlsen and Jan Nepomnjaschtschi took place in Dubai from November 24th to December 10th, 2021 . There he was able to successfully defend his title with a result of 7½: 3½ after 11 games.

Elo development

Elo development

List of tournament results (excluding rapid chess)

competition location Result / score rank
2004
Smartfish Masters Dramming 3/9 9-10 place
2005
Gausdal 4/9 6-8 place
Biel 4/10 (+0 = 8 −2) 6th place
2006
Youth versus experience Amsterdam 6.5 / 10 1st place of the juniors
Biel 6/10 (+4 = 4 −2) 2nd place
Valley Memorial Moscow 3.5 / 9 (+0 = 7 −2) 8th-9th place
2007
Corus chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 4.5 / 13 (+0 = 9 −4) 13-14 Place (shared with Alexei Schirow )
International tournament Linares 7.5 / 14 (+4 = 7 −3) 2-3 Place (shared with Alexander Morosewitsch )
International tournament Dortmund 3/7 (+0 = 6 −1) 6th place
Biel 5.5 / 9 (+4 = 3 −2) 1st – 2nd Place (shared with Alexander Onischuk )
Chess World Cup 2007 Khanty-Mansiysk 10/14 3rd place
2008
Corus chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 8/13 (+5 = 6 −2) 1st – 2nd Place (shared with Levon Aronjan )
International tournament Linares and Morelia 8/14 (+5 = 6 −3) 2nd place
1st round of the FIDE Grand Prix 2008–2010 Baku 8/13 (+4 = 8 −1) 1st - 3rd Place (shared with Vüqar Həşimov and Wang Yue )
Aerosvisit tournament Foros 8/11 (+5 = 6 −0) 1st place
Biel 6/10 (+3 = 6 −1) 3rd place
Final Chess Masters Bilbao 5/9 (+3 = 4 −3) 2nd place
2009
Corus chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 7/13 (+2 = 10 −1) 5th-6th Place (shared with Leinier Domínguez )
International tournament Linares 7.5 / 14 (+3 = 9 −2) 3rd place
M-Tel Masters Sofia 6/10 (+3 = 6 −1) 2-3 Place (shared with Wesselin Topalow )
International tournament Dortmund 5.5 / 10 2-4 Place (shared with Péter Lékó and Dmitri Jakowenko )
Pearl Spring Chess Tournament Nanjing 8/10 (+6 = 4 −0) 1st place
Valley Memorial Moscow 5.5 / 9 (+2 = 7 −0) 2nd place
London Chess Classic London 5/7 (+3 = 4 −0) 1st place
2010
Corus chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 8.5 / 13 (+5 = 7 −1) 1st place
Kings Tournament Bazna 7.5 / 10 (+5 = 5 −0) 1st place
39th Chess Olympiad Khanty-Mansiysk 4.5 / 8 ?
Final Chess Masters Bilbao 2.5 / 6 (+1 = 3 −2) 3rd place
Pearl Spring Chess Tournament Nanjing 7/10 (+4 = 6 −0) 1st place
London Chess Classic London 4.5 / 7 (+4 = 1 −2) 1st place
2011
Corus chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 8/13 (+5 = 6 −2) 3rd place
Kings Tournament Bazna 6.5 / 10 (+3 = 7 −0) 1st – 2nd Place (shared with Sergei Karjakin )
Biel 7/10 (+5 = 4 −1) 1st place
Final Chess Masters Bilbao 6/10 (+3 = 6 −1) 1st – 2nd Place (shared with Wassyl Iwantschuk , victory in the tie-break)
Valley Memorial Moscow 5.5 / 9 (+2 = 7 −0) 1st – 2nd Place (shared with Levon Aronjan )
London Chess Classic London 5.5 / 8 (+3 = 5 −0) 2-3 Place (shared with Hikaru Nakamura )
2012
Corus chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 8/13 (+4 = 8 −1) 2-4 Place (shared with Teymur Rəcəbov and Fabiano Caruana )
Valley Memorial Moscow 5.5 / 9 (+2 = 7 −0) 1st place
Biel 7/10 (+4 = 6 −0) 2nd place
Final Chess Masters Bilbao 6.5 / 10 (+4 = 5 −1) 1st – 2nd Place (shared with Fabiano Caruana , win in the tie-break)
London Chess Classic London 6.5 / 8 (+5 = 3 −0) 1st place
2013
Corus chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 10/13 (+7 = 6 −0) 1st place
World Cup Candidates Tournament London 8.5 / 14 (+5 = 7 −2) 1st place (after ranking in front of Wladimir Kramnik )
Norway Chess Stavanger 5.5 / 9 (+3 = 5 −1) 2-3 Place (shared with Hikaru Nakamura )
Valley Memorial Moscow 5.5 / 9 (+3 = 5 −1) 2nd place
Sinquefield Cup St. Louis 4.5 / 6 (+3 = 3 −0) 1st place
World championship fight against Viswanathan Anand Chennai 6.5 / 10 (+3 = 7 −0) Carlsen wins 6.5: 3.5 and becomes 16th world champion
2014
Zurich Chess Challenge 2014 Zurich 4/5 (+3 = 2 −0) 1st place
Shamkir Chess 2014 Şəmkir 6.5 / 10 (+5 = 3 −2) 1st place
Norway Chess 2014 Stavanger 5.5 / 9 (+2 = 7 −0) 2nd place
Sinquefield Cup 2014 St. Louis 5.5 / 10 (+2 = 7 −1) 2nd place
World championship fight against Viswanathan Anand Sochi 6.5 / 11 (+3 = 7 −1) Carlsen wins the match early with 6.5: 4.5 and remains world champion
2015
Tata Steel chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 9/13 (+6 = 6 −1) 1st place
Gashimov Memorial Tournament Şəmkir 7/9 (+5 = 4 −0) 1st place
Norway Chess Stavanger 3.5 / 9 (+2 = 3 −4) 8th place
Sinquefield Cup St. Louis 5/9 (+3 = 4 −2) 2nd place
London Chess Classic London 5.5 / 9 (+2 = 7 −0) 1st place
Qatar Masters tournament Doha 7/9 (+5 = 4 −0) 1st place
2016
Tata Steel chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 9/13 (+5 = 8 −0) 1st place
Norway Chess Stavanger 6/9 (+4 = 4 −1) 1st place
Bilbao Chess Masters Bilbao 17/10 (+4 = 5 −1) 1st place (special rating: winner gets 3 points)
World championship fight against Sergei Karjakin new York 6/12 (+1 = 10 −1) Carlsen wins the tie-break with 3/4 (+2 = 2 −0) and remains world champion
2017
Tata Steel chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 8/13 (+4 = 8 −1) 2nd place
Grenke Chess Classics Baden-Baden 4/6 (+1 = 5 −0) 3rd place
Altibox Norway Chess Stavanger 4/9 (+1 = 6 −2) 9th place
Sinquefield Cup Saint Louis 5.5 / 9 (+3 = 5 −1) 2nd place
Chess World Cup 2017 Tbilisi 4.5 / 6 (+4 = 1 −1) 17th-32nd place
Isle of Man International Isle of Man 7.5 / 9 (+6 = 3 −0) 1st place
2018
Tata Steel chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 9/13 (+5 = 8 −0) 1st place after victory in the tie-break (+1 = 1 −0) against Anish Giri
Grenke Chess Classic Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden 5.5 / 9 (+2 = 7 −0) 2nd place
Shamkir Chess Şəmkir 6/9 (+3 = 6 −0) 1st place
Norway Chess Oslo 4.5 / 8 (+2 = 5 −1) 2nd place
Sinquefield Cup Saint Louis 5.5 / 9 (+2 = 7 −0) 1st - 3rd Place (shared with Fabiano Caruana and Lewon Aronjan )
Biel International Chess Festival Biel / Bienne 6/10 (+3 = 6 −1) 2nd place
World championship fight against Fabiano Caruana London 6/12 (+0 = 12 −0) Carlsen wins the tie-break with 3/3 (+3 = 0 −0) and remains world champion
2019
Tata Steel chess tournament Wijk aan Zee 9/13 (+5 = 8 −0) 1st place
Shamkir Chess Şəmkir 7/9 (+5 = 4 −0) 1st place
Grenke Chess Classic Karlsruhe / Baden-Baden 7.5 / 9 (+6 = 3 −0) 1st place
Norway Chess Stavanger 13.5 (+2 = 7 −0 in classical games, +6 −1 in Armageddon) 1st place
Croatia Grand Chess Tour Zagreb 8/11 (+5 = 6 −0) 1st place
Sinquefield Cup Saint Louis 6.5 / 11 (+2 = 9 −0 in classical games, +0 = 2 −0 in rapid chess and +0 = 0 −2 in blitz chess) 2nd place
Isle of Man International Isle of Man 7.5 / 11 (+4 = 7 −0) 6th place
2020
Tata Steel chess tournament Wijk aan Zee and Eindhoven 8/13 (+3 = 10 −0) 2nd place
Norway Chess Stavanger 19.5 (+5 = 3 −2 in classical games, +3 −0 in Armageddon) 1st place
  1. ↑ In this tournament, an Armageddon game was played immediately after each draw game . A victory in the classic tournament game was rated with 2 points, a draw - depending on the outcome of the Armageddon game - with 0.5 or 1.5 points.
  2. ↑ In this tournament, an Armageddon game was played immediately after each draw game . A victory in the classic tournament game was rated with 3 points, a draw - depending on the outcome of the Armageddon game - with 1.0 or 1.5 points.

Greatest successes

Play style

Carlsen has an intuitive understanding of the game and is compared in this regard to José Raúl Capablanca and Anatoli Karpow . He can therefore handle many different types of positions well. In the opening he is not restricted to certain systems, which makes it very difficult to prepare for him. He often avoids extensively analyzed theoretical variants and strives for positions in which he can put his opponents under long-term pressure. He is characterized by a great fighting spirit. In the endgame in particular , he plays very well and effectively exploits opponent's mistakes. Often he succeeds in exploiting the smallest of advantages in seemingly even endgames. This ability is metaphorically described by commentators that Carlsen could "squeeze water out of rock". According to Levon Aronjan, Carlsen's greatest strength is his self-control, which allows him to keep fighting even after making mistakes. Carlsen himself rejected criticism of his style. After the German honorary chess president Robert von Weizsäcker had said that Carlsen had won against Anand because he was "the better athlete [...] and not because he was the better chess player", Carlsen said his style of play followed a well thought-out strategy . Radosław Wojtaszek praised Carlsen's economic style of play. He doesn't try to find the best move in every position, which takes a lot of time and energy, but rather plays moves that are “good enough”. In an interview, Mark Dworezki referred to statements by Carlsen's former trainer Simen Agdestein , according to which intuition and fearlessness are the special features of Carlsen's style. His arithmetic is not unique, but he has a perfect sense of position. Grigory Serper is of the opinion that Carlsen's particular strengths are his excellent memory and the ability to recognize patterns based on it .

Contributions to opening theory

At the tournament in Shamkir 2018, Carlsen introduced a new variant against the Sicilian Defense into master practice against Radosław Wojtaszek : 1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Qd2 with the idea of ​​using b3, Bb2 as well long castling . Wojtaszek, on the other hand, chose a setup with Nf6 and e6 and lost the game in 31 moves. Later a setup with 5. ... g6 became more popular for Black.

Game example

Carlsen-Kasparov
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End position after 52nd Bf2

In the following game, the 13-year-old Carlsen scored a draw with the white pieces in Reykjavík in 2004 against former Russian world champion Kasparov.

Carlsen – Kasparow ½: ½
Reykjavík Rapid, March 18, 2004
Rejected Queen's Gambit ( Cambridge Springs variant ), D52
1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 Qa5 7. Nd2 Bb4 8. Dc2 0–0 9. Be2 e5 10. 0–0 exd4 11. Nb3 Qb6 12. exd4 dxc4 13. Bxc4 a5 14. a4 Qc7 15. Tae1 h6 16. Bh4 Bd6 17. h3 Nb6 18. Bxf6 (18.… gxf6 19. Qg6 + Kh8 20. Qxh6 + Kg8 21. Qg6 + Kh8 22. Qxf6 + Kg8 23. Re4 and White wins ...) Nxc4 19.Ne4 Bh2 + 20. Kh1 Nd6 21. Kxh2 Nxe4 + 22. Be5 Nd6 23. Qc5 Rd8 24.d5 Qd7 25.Nd4 Nf5 26.dxc6 bxc6 27.Nxc6 Re8 28.Rd1 De6 29.Rfe1 Bb7 30.Nd4 Nxd4 31. Qxd4 Qg6 32. Qg4 Qxg4 33. hxg4 Bc6 34. b3 f6 35.Bc3 Rxe1 36. Rxe1 Bd5 37. Rb1 Kf7 38. Kg3 Rb8 39. b4 axb4 40. Lxb4 Bc4 41. a5 La . f3 Kg6 43. Kf4 h5 44. gxh5 + Kxh5 45. Rh1 + Kg6 46. Bc5 Rb2 47. Kg3 Ra2 48. Bb6 Kf7 49. Rc1 g5 50. Rc7 + Kg6 51. Rc6 Bf1 52. Bf2 ½: ½

Others

In the German Chess League, Carlsen played for Schachfreunde Neukölln in the 2004/05 season . From 2006 to 2013 he was registered for the OSG Baden-Baden (until June 2008 OSC Baden-Baden), but he was only used in the seasons 2006/07 , 2007/08 and 2008/09 . In France he is a member of Clichy Echecs 92 . In the Dutch Meesterklasse he had in the 2007/08 season, a bet with the Master Hilversums Schaakgenootschap , in the Spanish team championship he played in 2004 for CA Magic Mérida .

In March 2005, Garry Kasparov had named him alongside Sergei Karjakin and Hikaru Nakamura as what he believed to be the most promising player of the future. In December 2009, Kasparov particularly praised Carlsen's intuition and his natural talent for recognizing the optimal position of the figures well in advance.

Carlsen lives in the village of Haslum in the Norwegian municipality of Bærum , 15 km from Oslo , and enjoys playing football in his spare time .

In 2010 he got a contract as a model for the Dutch clothing company G-Star . The revenues of his marketing company Magnuschess rose from 3.5 million NOK in 2009 to 8.4 million NOK (a good 1 million  euros ) in 2010. In 2012, Carlsen's annual income was approximately US 1.2 million, according to his manager -Dollars . After winning the world championship title, Magnus Carlsen registered his name as a brand in order to be able to market products under it in the future. In 2017 the Magnuschess company , 85 percent owned by Magnus Carlsen and 15 percent by his father Hendrik, posted a pre-tax profit of NOK 11.4 million . In 2016 it was 8.7 million NOK.

In April 2013, Carlsen was added to the Time 100 list. The women's magazine Cosmopolitan praised him as one of the hundred most attractive men in the world.

In February 2016, on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Carlsen played simultaneously against 70 predominantly drawn opponents and won 67 of the games with one defeat and two draws.

The documentary Magnus - Der Mozart des Schach (2016) by Benjamin Ree shows Carlsen's development until he won the world championship title in 2013.

In 2019 there was a dispute between Magnus Carlsen and the Norwegian Chess Federation . It was about a sponsorship offer worth five million euros for a period of five years by the gambling company Kindred Group , which the chess association did not want to accept for ethical reasons. Carlsen, who had campaigned for the business, then founded his own chess club Offerspil Sjakklubb and paid the contributions of the first 1,000 members out of his own pocket in order to secure more influence on the chess association, which had 4,000 members to date.

Carlsen plays Fantasy Football , a simulation of football management played over the Internet , in the Fantasy Premier League , where he and his fictional club Kjell Ankedal finished first in mid-December 2019, ahead of over seven million other players.

In July 2021, Carlsen was awarded the Fair Play Svetozar Gligoric Trophy for 2020 by the World Chess Federation FIDE . In the online Chessable Masters tournament , his opponent Ding Liren lost a game because his internet connection went down. Carlsen then deliberately lost the next game because he didn't want to take advantage of it.

literature

Web links

Commons : Magnus Carlsen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Carlsen, Magnus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carlsen, Sven Magnus Øen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian chess grandmaster and world chess champion
BIRTH DATE November 30, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Tonsberg