The Norway Post
Chess: Carlsen ranked best in the world
Norway’s chess ace Magnus Carlsen (19) now tops the unofficial world ranking list, after he beat Hungarian former world champion Peter Leko in the last match of the Tal Memorial chess tournament in Moscow on Saturday.
Russian Vladimir Kramnik took clear first place in the Moscow tournament with 6/9, half a point clear of Ukraine’s Vassily Ivanchuk and Magnus Carlsen. Aronian beat World Champion Viswanathan Anand in the final round and Magnus Carlsen won his second game in a row.
(NRK)
Rolleiv Solholm
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Magnus is the greatest player ever.
Inaccuracy by the paper. Leko was never World Champion. Despite tying Kramnik in his challenge match, draw odds were in place and the title was defended. Seems like the Norway post got overly excited.
Magnus is 18.
Magnus is 18.
It will be interesting to see how Magnus and team manifest over the next few years. He is photogenic, seemingly personable and has many of the qualities possessed by Tiger Woods. He could be, individually, quite a force and he could lift chess as a whole. Let’s hope he’s handled with the same aplomb that has marked Tiger’s career.
It would be great forr all of us fans of chess.
“Magnus is 18.”
Magnus is 18.96 years old, 2 weeks from 19. What’s the fuss?
Go Magnus Go!
see! Magnus has supporters from India too!
To anon
“Magnus is the greatest….”
Sorry that has to be Bobby! The greatest pre computer era champ ever. And,he did it all by himself,without a host of GM’s to analyse for him!