Meet Magnus Carlsen, the ‘Justin Bieber’ of chess
by: STAFF WRITERS
From: news.com.au
9 hours ago November 20, 2013 2:04PM
THE genius of Norwegian chess player Magnus Carlsen is perhaps best described through numbers.
The first, 13, is he age at which he became a “grand master” of chess, and a household name in Norway. 2870 – Carlsen’s player rating, making him the highest-rated chess player in history. And 19 – the age at which he became the world’s youngest number one-ranked chess player.
Makes you feel a little inadequate, doesn’t it?
And now he’s about to go down in history as the greatest chess player of all time, as he battles it out at the World Chess Championships against five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand.
It seems the world just can’t get enough of this 22-year-old Norwegian hunk.
He’s been dubbed “the Mozart of chess”, one of the “the sexiest men of 2013” by Cosmopolitan and earns around $1 million annually just through sponsorship deals with brands such G-Star Raw.
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And he’s got some advice for any ladies out there looking to make him their King: don’t talk to him about chess.
“I really don’t like it when I go out and some girls start talking to me about how they played chess with their grandfather as a kid, I can’t stand that. It’s boring. I want to talk about whatever else.”
Full article here.
Nakamura is the sexiest man in chess. Can anyone doubt this?
“…he greatest chess player of all time…”
You mean after computers and databases started doing all of the research and compiling…you know, the grunt work that used to be done between a player’s ears if he or she had the desire to outwork other players.