Also in 1977, at Cagnes-sur-Mer, he won the World Under-16 championship (ahead of other distinguished young talents, including Garry Kasparov), before becoming Icelandic champion on the first of three occasions (1977, 1982 and 1988).
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Just a year later, playing in a telex match for Iceland against England, he drew as Black against Jonathan Mestel, an established master.
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Like fellow Scandinavians Simen Agdestein and Magnus Carlsen, Árnason in his youth was hailed as a potential world champion after a string of results.
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Shortly thereafter, he accepted an invitation to join the Botvinnik chess school.
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