Articles tagged with: Magnus Carlsen
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Interview in "the country" Magnus Carlsen:
Question. What IQ do you have?
Response. No idea. I do not know. It can mean a nasty surprise.
P. How do you say that? At 19, head of global elranking chess. It must be incredibly intelligent.
R. Indeed that would be awful. Of course it is important that a chess player knows concentrate well, but can also be a burden to be too clever. I am convinced that the Englishman John Nunn was never world champion because he was too smart to be.
P. It takes a year collaborating with Gary ...
TOP Fide "
After linares already have the current Top 20.
Carlsen 2812.9 +2.9 13 January 1990
Topalov 2812.2 +7.2 10 January 1975
Kramnik 2789.9 +1.9 13 January 1975
Anand 2788.7 -1.3 February 14, 1969
Aronian 2783.5 +2.5 February 19, 1982
Grischuk 2769.6 +33,6 March 26, 1983
Mamedyarov 2759.5 +18.5 September 1, 1985
Wang Yue 2751.1 +2.1 January 1, 1987
Ivanchuk 2749.8 +0.8 February 15, 1969
Svidler 2745.3 +1.3 February 12, 1976
Radjabov 2740.2 +7.2 July 1, 1987
Gelfand 2740.0 -21 February 17, 1968
Ponomariov 2737.0 0 0 0 1983
Eljanov 2735.4 -0.6 February 6, 1983
Leko 2735.2 -3.8 13 January 1979
Nakamura 2734.8 +26.8 February 21, 1987
Shirov ...
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Via twitter I found this tournament to be held in Monaco, starts on March 13 and ends on the 25th, organized by the Association Max Euwe.
The prize will be 216,000 Euros.
The 12 participants are:
Levon Aronian (Armenia)
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
Leinier Dominguez (Cuba)
Vugar Gashimov (Azerbaijan)
Boris Gelfand (Israel)
Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine)
Sergey Karjakin (Russia)
Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)
Alexander Morozevich (Russia)
Ruslan Ponomariov
Jan Smeets (England)
Peter Svidler.
Official Website: http://www.amberchess2010.com/
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TIME magazine interview translated by ajedrez32.com:
At age 13, was the youngest grandmaster in history. A few years later, he surpassed the world's best players. And this January 1, at 19 years old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen will officially become the youngest person in history to win first place in the elo rating. TIME met the great master in a tournament in London to investigate the mind of a chess genius.
Q: When people find out ...











































