Sven Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess player, grandmaster, the best chess player on the planet, the absolute world chess champion. Born November 30, 1990. Magnus Carlsen has the highest rating in the history of world chess. Classic, rapid and blitz - in all types of chess Magnus Carlsen is a champion, with corresponding ratings - 2840 - 2896 - 2914. The highest rating in standard chess was recorded in May 2014 - 2842 points.
Magnus Carlsen: “Chess is the love of life”
Magnus’s father, Henrik Carlsen, was an engineer at an oil company who played chess well and had a decent rating for a little-known chess player - 2101 points in Elo’s rating. When Magnus was 5 years old, his father taught the rules of the chess game. Little by little, the little chess player began to get involved in this activity seriously, eagerly reading chess books and flashing several hours a day on the Internet. Literally falling in love with this game, Magnus gradually began to improve and eagerly study combinations and openings. Success quickly made itself felt: Microsoft in 2003 began to sponsor Magnus and his family, predicting a great future for him.
Chess genius of our time
In the chess world, he is considered a genius of our time, because Magnus tends to memorize about 10 thousand games by heart. His thinking is a powerful computer, which in seconds is able to calculate in advance several dozens, or even hundreds of chess moves. At the age of 13 years and 148 days, the young chess prodigy won the title of grandmaster, which made him the third in the world in the list of the youngest chess grandmasters. Every year Magnus raises his game and thinking to new heights.
Play style
From childhood, the young chess player loved an open and aggressive game, often attacking the opponent’s pieces, attacking the royal and queenside, and also immediately agreed to exchange. His game testified to the complete fearlessness of the chess player and the absence of nerves. With age, Carlsen began to realize that a risky style is not good for playing against world-class chess players, although he already had experience of victories over serious grandmasters. When he started playing in the world's leading chess tournaments, his style became gradually universalized, able to handle many kinds of positions on the board is advantageous enough to gain victory over an opponent.
With age and serious victories, Carlsen developed his own universal style of play. He is especially strong in the middlegame and endgame, however, he does not play his openings according to the textbook. This especially confuses his opponents when Magnus chooses the 20th move in popularity from a draw of some kind of debut or defense. Many prominent chess grandmasters often speak about the style of the champion’s game. The games of Magnus Carlsen are disassembled in parts, evaluating the correctness and correctness of the moves. There are a lot of opinions, but each mentions the genius of the current champion.
Magnus Carlsen vs. Computer
In the age of modern and information technologies, chess programs and artificial intelligence have reached such a level that a computer leaves no chance of victory against a person. This fact makes almost everyone think about whether Magnus Carlsen will be able to beat artificial intelligence, given that he beats almost all famous chess players. Magnus answers this question as follows: “I'm more interested in fighting people than with a computer. There are many interesting parties where the “Old Indian Defense” is encountered, which is very difficult to play correctly. So not yet. ”
