Wonderboy Magnus Carlsen: How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Grandmaster in the World
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hikarua Nakamura defeated Magnus Carlsen 3-1 in the final of the BNbank Blitz tournament, held Saturday, November 28th in Oslo, Norway. Carlsen won the first game and had good positions in games 2 and 4, but Nakamura had the strongest nerves. The one-day blitz tourney sponsored by BNBank, a Norwegian retail and corporate bank, took place [...]
The Kenilworthian (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Less than two weeks ago, Magnus Carlsen won the World Blitz Championship at the Tal Memorial in Moscow. Yesterday he lost to Hikaru Nakamura, widely considered the best blitz player in the world (but who did not play in Moscow), in the final of the BNBank knockout blitz tournament in Oslo. So who's really the champ? Check out the Oslo Blitz page created by ChessBase to play over the games and watch...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
Leonard Barden, in this week's Guardian article , titled "Magnus Carlsen's star continues to rise in Norway", talks about the World Blitz Championship, where I was able to beat him in one of our direct encounters. I post my game against Magnus below. Magnus resigned after he played 43. R3e2, since he saw that I can win a Rook by simply playing 43...Qxf2+. Here is the text of his article....
United States Chess Federation (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Our US Champion Hikaru Nakamura topped Magnus Carlsen in the finals of the BNbank Blitz in Norway, which features a mix of invited and qualified players.
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Dear Friends! I just managed to get hold of the video of all of my games of the last World Chess Blitz Championship in Moscow. I was very successful and won several nice games against World Champion Vishy Anand (also World Rated #3), World Rated #1 Magnus Carlsen, World Rated #5 Levon Aronian, World Rated #6 Gashimov, World Rated #10 Grischuk, World Rated #11 Morozevich, and several other top players...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
CORPORATE NORWAY SUPPORTS CHESS Law firm Simonsen announced today that they are sponsoring Magnus Carlsen with NOK 2 millions. Carlsen’s extreme focus, discipline and determent are an example and an inspiration for our company, says Simonsen. Recently, investment bank Artic Securities also gave him NOK 2 millions. Magnus is breaking new ground here. None of the companies have signed any similar...
Alexandra Kosteniuk's CHESSBLOG.COM (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The World Blitz Chess Championship that took place on November 16-18, 2009 in Moscow has come to its end. Magnus Carlsen won this event with a fantastic result - 31 out of 42! That's 3 points ahead of Viswanathan Anand who took the silver medal of the championship! In the last 4 days I played 59 blitz-games! Since just before the world blitz championship, on November 15, I took part in another strong...
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Magnus Carlsen has won the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. The Norwegian scored 10/14 on the third day and eventually finished three points ahead of Viswanathan Anand, who scored ‘only’ 8/14, just like yesterday, but still finished 2nd in the standings, 3 points ahead of Sergei Karjakin. Vugar Gashimov apparently had enough of his bad [...]
The Kenilworthian (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The World Blitz Championship at the Tal Memorial in Moscow has just concluded, with Magnus Carlsen first, Viswanathan Anand second, and Sergey Karjakin third. Carlsen dominated the field today and the three have led since yesterday. See the final table at ChessBase for full results. The Tal Memorial Blitz event is for many the highlight of this wonderful tournament, which this year is among the strongest...
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Magnus Carlsen has taken over the lead from Viswanathan Anand on the second day of the World Blitz Championship in Moscow. The Norwegian scored 11/14 today (no draws!) while Anand ‘only’ managed 8/14, but he’s is still 2nd in the standings. Day 2 saw excellent scores for Karjakin, Mamedyarov and Kosteniuk. The World Blitz Championship, the [...]
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
After the first day of play in Moscow, World Champion Viswanathan Anand has become the favourite to win the World Blitz title as well. The Indian started with a fine score of 12 out of 14 and is 2 points ahead of Magnus Carlsen. On third place after 14 rounds we find… 12th World Champion [...]
The Kenilworthian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The Tal Memorial concluded in Moscow with former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik winning with 6 out of 9 and Vassily Ivanchuk and Magnus Carlsen close behind with 5.5 out of 9. None of the top three finishers had any losses. Current World Champion Viswanathan Anand lost in the final round to Levon Aronian to drop to 5 out of 9, leaving him tied with Aronian for fourth and fifth. Carlsen was widely...
Susan Polgar Chess Blog (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
CHECK MAGNUS November 16, 2009 The chess world has a new No.1 player, Magnus Carlsen of Norway, and he is only 18 years old - the youngest No.1 ever. On Saturday, Carlsen beat No.11 Peter Leko of Hungary in the final round of a tournament in Moscow. Although Carlsen only tied for second in the tournament, it was enough for him to edge out Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria for the top world ranking. Topalov,...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Ten of the world elite are competing at Moscow's Tal Memorial, which ends today and is one of the strongest tournaments in chess history. But the winner in the event's first half was a flu virus which affected several grandmasters and encouraged a minimalist, cautious approach. Ukraine's Vasily Ivanchuk wore a face mask, and a high 80 per cent of the first five round games were drawn. The sickest...
Chess news by ChessVibes (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
In the only decisive encounter of the Tal Memorial’s 8th round, Magnus Carlsen won his first game, and we might as well add: in Tal style. A devastating sacrifice on e6 in a Sicilian decided his game against Ponomariov at an early stage. With four draws in the other games, Kramnik is still half a [...]
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