Magnus Carlsen is a famous Swedish chess player who has repeatedly become world champion and successfully defended his title. What is interesting about his biography and personal life?
Carlsen Biography
The future famous chess player was born on November 30, 1990 in the small town of Tensberg. In the family of his parents, he was the only son. Magnus also has three sisters. The boy’s father was always fond of chess and achieved a certain success in them. After the birth of his son, dad decided to transfer to him his skills in this game. Magnus began to engage in this game with enthusiasm, and at an early age it was clear that the future star of this sport was growing.
Carlsen stood out from the total number of his peers in that he had an excellent mind and memory. At four years old, the boy knew all the names of cities in Norway, and there are about five hundred of them. At eight, Magnus wins a blitz game with a computer hosted by Microsoft. For this he is given a world tour for a whole year for the whole family. In its development, Carlsen is significantly ahead of his peers. Therefore, they do not like him at school and are constantly trying to humiliate him.
At the age of 10, Hansen, a world-class chess master, begins to train Magnus. He passes on to the gifted boy all his skills and introduces him to Grandmaster Simen Agdestein. These recognized chess masters allow Carlsen to become the youngest professional chess player in the history of the game. At age 13, the boy won second place at the world championships in the UAE. A year later, Magnus is already the best chess player in the world. He amazes the whole chess world with his abilities and ability to reduce even bad matches to his victory.
In 2005, Carlsen becomes the youngest world champion in history. Magnus is diligently training and studying the game technique of many famous Soviet chess players. After a couple of years, he is already being trained by Garry Kasparov.
The Swede continues to win tournaments, and in 2013 becomes the 13th absolute world champion. In that year, his ability level exceeded all the world grandmasters in the history of this game. Carlsen is one of the most influential people in the world.
In 2016, Magnus is seeking the greatest attention to his person. He holds an obligatory match match for the title of world chess champion with Russian Sergey Karjakin. Once this young Russian broke the Swedish record and became the youngest professional chess player in 12 years. Carlsen with great difficulty wins a total victory in 12 games and defends his champion title.
And in 2018, Magnus will again have to fight for his world title. This time, his opponent will be American chess player Fabiano Caruano, who won the challengers tournament in March this year.
