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2 unusual facts about Magnus Carlsen


Øyvind Asbjørnsen

His most notable work was The Prince of Chess, a 2005 documentary about 13-year-old chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen.

World Chess Championship 2014

The World Chess Championship 2014 will be a match between the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen, and a challenger, to determine the 2014 World Chess Champion.


Alexei Shirov

In September 2010, Shirov participated in the Grand Slam Chess Masters preliminary tournament in Shanghai from September 3 to 8, where he faced world No. 4 Levon Aronian, world No. 5 Vladimir Kramnik, and Wang Hao; the top two scorers qualified for the Grand Slam final supertournament from October 9 to 15 in Bilbao against world No. 1 Magnus Carlsen and world champion Viswanathan Anand.

Corus 2008 chess tournament

It consisted of three main Grandmaster groups and the Honorary group, comprising former A group champions; groups A, B and C were won respectively by Levon Aronian (on tiebreak from Magnus Carlsen, after both finished with 8 points), Sergei Movsesian (9½ points, one point ahead of Nigel Short and Étienne Bacrot) and Fabiano Caruana (10 points, two ahead of Dimitri Reinderman and Parimarjan Negi).

Erwin l'Ami

At Gausdal in 2004, he won the tournament, ahead of Magnus Carlsen and despite being expected to finish no higher than mid-table.

Jón Loftur Árnason

Like fellow Scandinavians Simen Agdestein and Magnus Carlsen, Árnason in his youth was hailed as a potential world champion after a string of results.

Kjetil Aleksander Lie

During the 2007 candidates matches in Elista, Lie served as Magnus Carlsen's second, helping with analysis and preparations.

Tal Memorial

The Tal Memorial 2012 took place from 7 to 18 June 2012, with participants Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Vladimir Kramnik, Teimour Radjabov, Alexander Grischuk, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Alexander Morozevich, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Luke McShane.


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