Archive for Magnus Carlsen
Monday, April 29, 2013 12:57
Last Wednesday Magnus Carlsen appeared at Charlie Rose's show for a lengthy interview. Rose is an an acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist who won an Emmy and and has been praised as “one of America's premier interviewers”.
The show is simply called Charlie Rose, and airs Monday through Friday on over 200 PBS affiliates throughout the...
Thursday, April 18, 2013 14:02
Magnus Carlsen has been included on TIME Magazine's list of "100 Most Influential People" for 2013. "(...) his intuitive style conserves the mystique of chess at a time when every CPU-enhanced fan thinks the game is easy," writes Garry Kasparov, who was commissioned to do the capsule for TIME.
I'm surprised and deeply honored. Inclusion in 2013...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 12:55
Now that the first round of the FIDE Candidates tournament is just two days away, it's high time for some predictions! Will it be a walk in the park for Magnus? Can we expect surprises from outsiders like Svidler or Gelfand? Will Ivanchuk be the decisive factor in the end? GMs Fabiano Caruana, Ruslan Ponomariov, Gawain Jones and Erwin l'Ami look...
Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:34
The first round of the Candidates tournament in London, on March 15th, 2013 will see the games Aronian-Carlsen, Gelfand-Radjabov, Ivanchuk-Grischuk and Svidler-Kramnik. Nine days before the opening ceremony the full pairings were already published on the official website.
FIDE and AGON, the commercial partner of the World Chess Federation, will...
Thursday, February 07, 2013 11:33
Soon after he won the 75th Tata Steel tournament, Magnus Carlsen travelled to the United States. His main destination was the Parallels Summit in Las Vegas, but earlier this week Carlsen also appeared on Rainn Wilson's Metaphysical Milkshake, an online show part of SoulPancake.
Carlsen sits down with Wilson at the back of his 1976 Chevy van and...
Tuesday, February 05, 2013 15:20
The full line-up of the first "Norway Chess" tournament was announced today and it's an impressive list: Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, Teimour Radjabov, Sergey Karjakin, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, Hikaru Nakamura, Wang Hao and Jon Ludvig Hammer.
Photos by New in Chess
Today the organizers of the "Norway Chess 2013"...
Saturday, February 02, 2013 16:25
Winning 11 more points at the Tata Steel tournament in January, Magnus Carlsen improved his record rating of 2861 to 2872 on the February FIDE rating list. The world's number one chess player is now 62 points ahead of his closest rival, #2 Vladimir Kramnik (whose son Vadim Vladimirovich was born on January 29th in Paris!). Meanwhile, the Norwegian...
Saturday, January 26, 2013 17:03
Less than 3.5 hours into the penultimate round, Magnus Carlsen has secured sole victory at the 75th Tata Steel chess tournament. The Norwegian crushed Hikaru Nakamura with White in 31 moves and not long afterwards his closest rival, Levon Aronian, drew with Anish Giri. Carlsen still has something to play for tomorrow: beating Giri would get him to...
Thursday, January 24, 2013 16:56
The 6th edition of the annual Grand Slam Masters Final in Bilbao was announced yesterday in a press release. Specific dates are not mentioned, and it's also not clear whether the first half of the tournament will again be hosted by a different host city (like Sao Paulo in 2011 and 2012). The organizers are urging FIDE "to hold discussions in order...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 20:21
Magnus Carlsen won yet another game at the Tata Steel tournament on Wednesday and is getting close to Garry Kasparov's "+7" (10 out of 13) in 1999 in Wijk aan Zee. This time the Norwegian won a pawn in the middlegame and ground down Erwin l'Ami after 65 moves to get to a 1.5 point lead in the A group standings. The second place is shared between...
