Biography of Magnus Carlsen

Name:	Magnus Carlsen
Year of birth:	1990
Country:	NOR
Title:	GM
(Current!?) Elo:	2810
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On Fide playerlist:	yes
Biography	Sometimes nicknamed the ‘Mozart of chess’, wunderkind Magnus started playing competitive chess at the age of 8, and by the age of 13 and 3 months became a grandmaster – a record second only to Karjakin. He is now the world’s youngest grandmaster. The young phenom made his biggest splash in the chess arena even before that, when he won Corus C in 2004 with a resounding +7 score and an over 2700 performance. After 3 years of exponential rise of Google proportions (500 ELO points between 2002-2005!), it looked like the young Norwegian star has cooled off a bit. He had a string of lukewarm and cold events, dropping 50 points, but any rumors or theories about hitting a plateau crumbled when Magnus regained his form. The Norwegian Magnus express is simply not stopping. The Corus A 2008 co-champion is returning to defend his title, with a hefty new personal best rating, and a near-pinnacle position on the world-ranking list (including a brief stint as the world’s number 1 at one ‘real time’ moment). If last year we said he was en route to the top 10, having broken the 2700 milestone, this time around he is only thinking of the top spot, and a hairs distance away from crossing the magical number of 2800. In addition to his great success in Corus, Carlsen had other very notable achievements: Second place at the super strong Linares 2008 edition, with an 8/14 result – second only to Vishy Anand a half a point above him, a tie for first at the Baku FIDE Grand Prix tournament with plus 3, and his best result: first place at the Aerosvit super GM event, with a stunning 8/11 score. He tied for second at the Bilbao Masters Grand Slam final, and only his Olympiad and Biel performances (two very reasonable results anyways), were below 2800 TPR!
Tournaments:
Tournament (4) Final ranking Corustoernooi 2007, Grootmeester A Groep, Round Robin 13 Corustoernooi 2008, Grootmeester A Groep, Round Robin 1 Corustoernooi 2009, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 5 Corustoernooi 2010, Grootmeester A groep, Round Robin 1