Archive for Magnus Carlsen
Monday, May 13, 2013 20:29
Anything is possible at the Norway Chess tournament as tournament leader Sergey Karjakin lost his first game on Monday to Magnus Carlsen. In a Ruy Lopez, just before the time control the Russian grandmaster lost his way in the complications. Jon Ludvig Hammer won his first game against Wang Hao in a Sämisch King's Indian. With four rounds to go,...
Monday, May 06, 2013 15:16
In a statement which we have just received from his manager, Magnus Carlsen says he is "deeply disappointed and surprised" by FIDE's decision to grant the World Championship match to Chennai. The Norwegian, who will challenge reigning World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India in November, doesn't seem to be planning to protest. "My team and I will...
Friday, May 03, 2013 18:39
Only hours after the open letter by the Norwegian Chess Federation, we have now also received a press release and an offical support letter from the mayor of Paris that the French capital is "ready organize the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen". The bid is much higher than the one by Chennai: a 2.65 million...
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 14:17
Espen Agdestein, the manager of Magnus Carlsen, still expects that FIDE will open a bidding process for the Anand-Carlsen World Championship match. In a telephone conversation with ChessVibes, Agdestein reacted to a recent interview with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. "It seems FIDE is trying to fix a mistake by making another mistake."
At the beginning of...
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...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 15:17
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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"...
