Carlsen, Magnus Age 33

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Title

Grandmaster

Live Rating

2830.0

FIDE Rating

2830

World Rank

#1

Norway Rank

#1

FIDE Peak Rating

2882 - May 2014 (Age 23)

FIDE Peak Rank

#1 (2810) - Jan 2010 (Age 19)

Rapid

2823 World #1, Peak 2919 (Jul 2017)

Blitz

2886 World #1, Peak 2986 (Dec 2017)

Born

30 Nov 1990
Tønsberg, Vestfold, Norway

FIDE ID 1503014

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World Champion 2013 till 2023. After defeating Anand to take the world crown in classical chess in 2013, he successfully defended his title against Anand in 2014, Karjakin in 2016, Caruana in 2018 and Nepomniachtchi in 2021, Carlsen retired from the World Championship cycle ceding the crown to the winner of the Nepomniachtchi-Ding Liren World Championship match held in April 2023. He is the first player to retire from the title.

He was World Rapid Champion 5 times in 2014, 2015, 2019, 2022 and 2023 and World Blitz Champion 7 times in 2009, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022 and 2023. He was triple World Champion (classical, rapid and blitz) in 2014, 2019 and 2022.

World #1 in standard, World #1 in rapid (live rating wef 7 Jan 2024) and World #1 in blitz, he is the only player to have ratings of over 2800 in each of these formats of the game. He has also had ratings of over 2900 in the rapid and blitz formats, the only player to have done so.

Carlsen became a Grandmaster in 2004 when he was 13 years old, at that time the second youngest grandmaster ever.

Norwegian Champion 2006.

Eight-time winner at Wijk aan Zee (Corus until 2010, currently the Tata Steel Tournament) in 2008, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2022.

Also won the category 21 Pearl Spring Tournament (2009) in Nanjing with 8/10 and a record performance rating of 3002.

Other victories in major events include

• Biel 2007 & 2011
• Aerosvit 2008
• the London Classic in 2009, 2010, 2012 & 2015
• King's Tournament 2010 & 2011
• Pearl Spring Tournament 2009 & 2010
• Bilbao Masters 2011, 2012 & 2016
• Tal Memorial 2011 & 2012
• Sinquefield Cup 2013 & 2018 (co-winner)
• Zurich Chess Challenge 2014
• Gashimov Memorial 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019
• Qatar Masters 2015
• Altibox Norway 2016 & 2019
• Isle of Man Masters 2017 and
• Grenke 2019, Zagreb (Grand Chess Tour) 2019).
  

He represented Norway on board 1 at the Chess Olympiads of 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014 and 2016.

Carlsen played in the category 22 Sinquefield Cup 2019 in August 2019, placing equal first alongside Ding Liren in the classical games, both scoring 6.5/11, but losing to Ding in the rapid/blitz playoff by 1-1 (rapid) and 2-0 (blitz).

Carlsen beat Wesley So in the Champions Chess Tour (CCT) finals to win the CCT for a third successive year.

In 2023, he achieved his dream of winning the World Cup, defeating Praggnanandhaa in the final 1-1 (classical) 1.5-0.5 (rapid). This was his fifth participation in the World Cup. In 2005, he placed 10th thereby qualifying for the Candidates Tournament, and at the age of 15 was the youngest player to do so, beating Fischer's record by 5 months. In 2007, Carlsen reached the semi-final but lost to Aronian and subsequently declined to participate in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2019. In 2017, Carlsen lost to Bu Xiangzhi in round 3, in 2021 he lost to Duda in the tiebreak in the semi final before finally breaking through to win in 2023 in a tense final.

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Games

#	White Player	Rating	Black Player	Rating	Result	Moves	Site	Date
1	Rapport, Richard	2719	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	79	Karlsruhe	1 Apr 2024
2	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Rapport, Richard	2719	1-0	51	Karlsruhe	1 Apr 2024
3	Vachier Lagrave, Maxime	2728	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	42	Karlsruhe	31 Mar 2024
4	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Keymer, Vincent	2738	1-0	73	Karlsruhe	31 Mar 2024
5	Ding, Liren	2762	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	36	Karlsruhe	30 Mar 2024
6	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Fridman, Daniel	2590	1-0	42	Karlsruhe	30 Mar 2024
7	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Rapport, Richard	2720	1-0	32	Karlsruhe	28 Mar 2024
8	Keymer, Vincent	2738	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	66	Karlsruhe	28 Mar 2024
9	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Vachier Lagrave, Maxime	2728	1/2-1/2	71	Karlsruhe	27 Mar 2024
10	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Ding, Liren	2762	1/2-1/2	48	Karlsruhe	27 Mar 2024
11	Fridman, Daniel	2590	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	68	Karlsruhe	26 Mar 2024
12	Rapport, Richard	2720	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1-0	41	Karlsruhe	26 Mar 2024
13	Aronian, Levon	2723	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	20	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
14	Murzin, Volodar	2627	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	36	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
15	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Rapport, Richard	2731	1-0	57	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
16	Duda, Jan Krzysztof	2732	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	81	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
17	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Yu, Yangyi	2714	1-0	38	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
18	Indjic, Aleksandar	2589	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	34	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
19	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Erigaisi, Arjun Kumar	2727	1-0	74	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
20	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Sarana, Alexey	2688	1-0	36	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
21	Vachier Lagrave, Maxime	2731	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1-0	47	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
22	Nepomniachtchi, Ian	2771	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	37	Samarkand	30 Dec 2023
23	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Nihal, Sarin	2688	1/2-1/2	35	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
24	Dubov, Daniil	2710	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	19	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
25	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Bharath, Subramaniyam H	2504	1-0	42	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
26	Sjugirov, Sanan	2703	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	59	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
27	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Artemiev, Vladislav	2711	1/2-1/2	24	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
28	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Vokhidov, Shamsiddin	2596	1-0	37	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
29	Radjabov, Teimour	2723	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	57	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
30	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Holt, Conrad	2540	1-0	48	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
31	Tsaruk, Maksim	2460	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	31	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
32	Vakhidov, Jahongir	2599	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	42	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
33	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Grigoriants, Sergey	2544	1-0	23	Samarkand	29 Dec 2023
34	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Praggnanandhaa, Rameshbabu	2740	1/2-1/2	23	Samarkand	28 Dec 2023
35	Abdusattorov, Nodirbek	2727	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	22	Samarkand	28 Dec 2023
36	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Idani, Pouya	2602	1-0	51	Samarkand	28 Dec 2023
37	Fedoseev, Vladimir1	2683	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	57	Samarkand	28 Dec 2023
38	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Keymer, Vincent	2738	1/2-1/2	69	Samarkand	27 Dec 2023
39	Yu, Yangyi	2714	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	31	Samarkand	27 Dec 2023
40	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Erigaisi, Arjun Kumar	2727	1/2-1/2	20	Samarkand	27 Dec 2023
41	Vidit, Santosh Gujrathi	2737	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	72	Samarkand	27 Dec 2023
42	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Gareyev, Timur	2570	1-0	36	Samarkand	26 Dec 2023
43	Maghsoodloo, Parham	2742	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	86	Samarkand	26 Dec 2023
44	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Petrosian, Tigran L	2561	1-0	39	Samarkand	26 Dec 2023
45	Khismatullin, Denis Rimovich	2579	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	50	Samarkand	26 Dec 2023
46	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	Petrov, Nikita	2561	1/2-1/2	76	Samarkand	26 Dec 2023
47	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	So, Wesley	2752	1-0	31	Toronto	16 Dec 2023
48	So, Wesley	2752	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	1/2-1/2	45	Toronto	16 Dec 2023
49	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	So, Wesley	2752	0-1	56	Toronto	16 Dec 2023
50	So, Wesley	2752	Carlsen, Magnus	2830	0-1	59	Toronto	16 Dec 2023