FREE HOW BECAME THE YOUNGEST IN THE WORLD: THE STORY AND THE GAMES PDF

Simen Agdestein | 192 pages | 16 Sep 2013 | | 9789056914370 | English | Czech Republic How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster In the World

How magnus carlsen becam. One has to give great praise to the author for his honesty and empathy and for the unselfish way he tells the story. That is why playing through these games is such a valuable experience. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission from the publisher. Magnus had become a grandmaster at an extremely early age and I had been given the chance to follow this extraordinary talent from when he started getting interested in chess at the age of 9 to when he was the youngest grandmaster in the world four years later. It was an adventure and certainly a story to tell! However, such enormous success also brings a lot of pressure. I was worried already then about how all this attention would affect him. Magnus certainly was very mature for his age and chess-wise he was of professor level even before he was a teenager. But still, he was just a child. In hindsight we can breathe a sigh of relief that things turned out as well as they did. Magnus became the number one in the world when he was 19 and is now way ahead of the How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games players in rating. There has been quite a bit of wisdom accompanying him on his way. His family deserves all possible praise for giving him such a good start. In Norway we say that it takes 10, hours to become world-class in something, and that makes sense for Magnus. It may seem that Magnus has played his way to the top, but that is only partly true. He has trained and worked too. The family got plenty of advice about how important it was to do this and do that when he was years old. Even Garry Kasparov added to the choir by claiming that these years would be crucial. But such words did not bite Magnus. I think almost How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games foreigner coming to Norway would be struck by the lack of discipline in Norwegian culture, but we do actually have some fantastic athletes around here. The job of those around him should simply be to tend to the garden and let the plant grow freely. Magnus has his weaknesses and he knows this very well himself. The focus should be on the process and on nothing else. In the last three rounds he was totally out of control and actually he was extremely lucky to win and qualify for the World Championship match with reigning champion Vishy Anand. There are actually a few things that we talked about when Magnus was just a little boy that we can still see in the way Magnus plays today. Kasparov was really dominant at that time, but one day he would quit, and then how would the next number one play? had his style, and it worked in his day — Kasparov had a completely different style. The way to get away from all this would simply be to vary your openings all the time. The next number one had to be totally unpredictable. And that is exactly what Magnus is now. He can play anything and you never know what to expect from him. I have the impression that Kasparov was close to anatystng many of his lines until the very end, but this approach seems more like science. Magnus is a sportsman. By changing your openings all the time you force your opponent into unknown territory and you also keep the game much more interesting for yourself. How exciting it is to discover new ideas over the board! Magnus has been extremely successful with his over-the-board fighting approach. Now he is the number one, and the one whose play everyone tries to imitate. However, that the news magazine Time should nominate Magnus to be one of the most powerful people in the world seemed a bit weird to me. Being the number one chess player in the world has brought him a lot, and for those who have known Magnus as just one of the lads, all this celebrity stuff seems a bit strange. Already the games in this book, those that were played before he was 14, are very nice. When I was How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games to publish this book in Norwegian there were plenty of publishers contacting me, but they asked me if I could take out the games. They just wanted the story, not the games. That would have been totally wrong. Magnus without his games is actually not that special. However, somehow his public image has become completely different. Magnus has managed to create a fantastic mystique around him. Sometimes he can even seem rude and extremely arrogant, but at other times he can be brilliant even in this role. Magnus is really a fast learner and his talent is not only restricted to chess. Magnus has held superb speeches on great sport gal as live on TV, and on the biggest talk shows on American TV his How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games and to-the-point answers seem to make the hosts wild. I remember how in his early teens Magnus used to hate photographers and to loathe having to follow their orders and pose in particular positions. Magnus looked even angrier than James Dean on those pictures, but the effect actually seems to have turned out the same: Magnus has also become an icon. The Dutch clothing company Raw decided to associate themselves with the brilliant chess player and signed him on as a model. A lot has happened since this book was written. Magnus was very annoyed about that, but such encounters were surely very useful for him. Magnus got the chance to play the best players in the world early, and it took a while even for Magnus to get used to that. Just getting the chance to play on this level on a regular basis is very demanding for upcoming players. After Magnus became a grandmaster at the age of 13, he more or less worked on his own for the next two years. I saw him occasionally and he trained a litile with others too. I thought then that developing in dependence was wise and Magnus was doing just fine. We tried to keep up the enthusiasm in different ways and in hindsight I believe both Magnus and those around him chose the right approach. This was of course a very inspiring period for all of us — both for the other students and for me and, hopefully, for Magnus too. When Magnus left school three years later, he was the number 3 in the world. He then started to train with Garry Kasparov and soon rose to the very top. It must have been tremendous working with the man who I believe is the greatest chess player in history ever Magnus still has a way to go before he can compete with Kasparov in that respect. According to Magnus that was pure gold! My thanks to New in Chess for publishing the book again! Perhaps it will be read in a different way now. I hope Magnus completes the circle by becoming World Champion already this autumn! Yes, obviously it is very early. The big media breakthrough came a few weeks earlier, when he defeated former world champion Anatoly Karpov in a blitz game in Reykjavik. The next day the telephone never stopped ringing. Magnus was in Iceland, blissfully unaware of the kind of uproar he had set in motion. I felt like I had spoken with every member of the media that day, and at any rate I dealt with them from six in the morning until late in the evening. After the completion of the grandmaster title it started up again. And not just the press. I have watched and trained Magnus for the past four years, since he was nine, and all the way I have had to pinch myself in the arm and shake my head in disbelief. How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games, I told his father one of the first times I saw Magnus in the winter of that the boy could become a GM before he was It was obvious that he was an enormous talent. The book is arranged chronologically. We follow Magnus and his fantastic journey from when he began to play with chess pieces at the age of five, until the present day. Many fine games are included in the book. I have tried to annotate these so that they can be easily understood, in the hope of making them accessible even for those who have only a limited knowledge of chess. The games illuminate the story but the book can also be read independent of them. It is an advantage to know something about chess to understand the context. For those not so familiar with the chess world, a small chess glossary in the back of the book explains the most common terms. Magnus Carlsen is the result of a fine environment and a mindful family. Precisely because of this, I am not afraid to write a book about Magnus — even if he is still in many ways just a little boy. My old football trainer at Oslo club Lyn, Erling Hokstad, used to say that it is how you perform in your next game that counts, not what you have done before. The same applies here. Magnus is far too young to start resting on his laurels. He is constantly focusing his gaze forward. Magnus still plays chess because it is fun. He has been allowed to frolic and do what he likes best of all, namely, play chess. But if this pleasure should turn in another direction, that will be fine. He must have fun as he continues to play, in the direction and at the speed that he chooses for himself. Chess's cheating crisis: 'paranoia has become the culture' | Sport | The Guardian

Carlsen first reached the top of the FIDE world rankings inand trails only Garry Kasparov in time spent as the highest rated player in the world. His peak classical rating of is the highest in history. Carlsen also holds the record for the longest unbeaten run in chess. Shortly after turning 13, he finished first in the C group of the Corus chess tournamentand earned the grandmaster title a few months later. At age 15, he won the Norwegian Chess Championshipand at 17, he finished joint first in the top group of Corus. He surpassed a rating of at age 18 and reached number one in the FIDE world rankings aged 19, becoming the youngest person ever to achieve those feats. In the following year, he retained his title against Anand, and won both the World Rapid Championship and World Blitz Championship, thus becoming the first player to hold all three titles simultaneously, a feat he repeated in He defended his classical world title against inand against in Known for his attacking style as a teenager, Carlsen has since developed into a universal player. He uses a variety of openings to make it more difficult for opponents to prepare against him and reduce the effect of computer analysis. He has stated the middlegame is his favourite part of the game as it "comes down to pure chess". They later moved to Haslum. His father, a keen amateur chess player, [7] taught him to play chess at the age of 5, although he initially showed little interest in the game. Simen Agdestein emphasises Carlsen's exceptional memory, stating that he was able to recall the areas, population numbers, flags and capitals of all the countries in the world by the age of five. Later, Carlsen had memorised the areas, population numbers, coat-of-arms and administrative centres of "virtually all" Norwegian municipalities. Carlsen was coached at the Norwegian College of Elite Sport by the country's top player, Grandmaster GM Simen Agdestein[4] who in turn cites Norwegian football manager Egil "Drillo" Olsen as a key inspiration for his coaching strategy. Over the course of this year, Carlsen's rating rose from in Juneto From autumn to the end ofCarlsen played almost rated tournament games, as well as several blitz tournaments, and participated in other minor events. He was officially awarded the IM title on 20 August After finishing primary school, Carlsen took a year off to participate in international chess tournaments held in Europe during the autumn ofreturning to complete secondary education at a sports school. Carlsen made headlines after his victory in the C group at the Corus in Wijk aan Zee. Particularly notable was his win over Sipke Ernst in the penultimate round, when Carlsen sacrificed material to give mate in just 29 moves. The blitz tournament was a preliminary event leading up to a rapid knockout tournament beginning the next day. In that event, Carlsen was paired with Garry Kasparovthen the top-rated player in the world. Carlsen achieved a in their first game but lost the second, and was thus knocked out of the tournament. This achievement made him the world's youngest GM at the time, as well as the second-youngest GM in history at the time after Sergey Karjakinwho earned the title at the age of 12 years and 7 months. A two-game match between them was How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games to decide the title. In the Norwegian Chess Championship, Carlsen again finished in shared first place, this time with his mentor Simen Agdestein. A playoff between them was played between 7 and 10 November. This time, Carlsen had the better tiebreaks, but the rule giving the title to the player with better tiebreak scores in the event of a 1—1 draw had been revoked previously. The match was closely fought—Agdestein won the first game, Carlsen the second—so the match went into a series of two-game rapid matches until there was a winner. Carlsen won the first rapid game, Agdestein the second. Then followed three draws until Agdestein won the championship title with a victory in the sixth rapid game. In the knockout tournament, he upset the 44th-ranked Zurab Azmaiparashvili in round one, and proceeded to defeat Farrukh Amonatov and to reach the round of Thus, Carlsen finished in tenth place and became the youngest player to be an official World Championship Candidate. Carlsen qualified for a place in the Corus How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games group due to his first-place finish in Corus group C in At the international 'Bosna' tournament in SarajevoCarlsen shared first place with Liviu- Dieter Nisipeanu who won on tiebreak evaluation and Vladimir Malakhov; this could be regarded as Carlsen's first "A" elite tournament win, although it was not a clear first. It also prevented Carlsen from beating Agdestein's record as the youngest Norwegian champion ever. After two draws at standard time controls, Carlsen won both rapid games in round two, securing his first Norwegian championship win. Carlsen won the Glitnir Blitz Tournament in Iceland. He finished ninth in a group of 18 participants in the associated blitz tournament, which was won by Anand. Carlsen played for the first time in the Melody Amber blind and rapid chess tournament in Monte Carlo in March. In the 11 rounds, he achieved eight draws and three losses in the blindfold games, as well as three wins, seven draws and one loss in the rapid games. This resulted in a shared ninth place in the blindfold, shared second place in the rapid behind Anandand a shared eighth place overall. Eventually, Aronian eliminated Carlsen from the tournament after winning both tiebreak blitz games. His score was matched by Alexander Onischuk and they played a match to break the tie. After drawing two rapid and two blitz games, Carlsen won the armageddon game. In the first round, Carlsen conceded a draw to his classmate Brede Hagen rated [62] after having a lost position at one point. Carlsen reached the semi-final round of the World Chess Cup in December, after defeating Michael Adams in the round of 16 and Ivan Cheparinov in the quarterfinals. Carlsen won five games, lost two and drew six, sharing first place with . In March, Carlsen played for the second time in the Melody Amber blind and rapid chess tournament, held in Nice for the first time. In the 11 rounds he achieved four wins, four draws and two losses in the blindfold, and three wins, two losses, and six draws in the rapid. This resulted in a shared fifth place in the blindfold, shared third place in the rapid and a shared second place in the overall tournament. In the first tournament, in BakuAzerbaijan, he finished in a three-way tie for first place, with another PR. He later withdrew from the Grand Prix cycle despite his initial success, criticising FIDE for "changing the rules dramatically in the middle of a World Championship cycle". Carlsen won a rapid match against held in MiskolcHungary, scoring 5—3. He lost to eventual winner in their final game, dropping him from first. By rating performance, this was one of the greatest results in history, with a PR of His score of 28 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses left him three points ahead of Anand, who finished in second place. In Novemberhowever, Carlsen announced he was withdrawing from the Candidates Tournament. Carlsen described the —12 cycle as "[not] sufficiently modern and fair", and wrote that "Reigning champion privileges, the long five-year span of the cycle, changes made during the cycle resulting in a new format Candidates that no World Champion has had to go through since Kasparov, puzzling ranking criteria as well as the shallow ceaseless match-after-match concept are all less than satisfactory in my opinion. Responding to a question in an interview with Time magazine in December as to whether he used computers when studying chess, Carlsen explained that he does not use a chess set when studying on his own. His ninth-round loss to Kramnik ended a streak of 36 rated games undefeated. In March it was announced that Carlsen had split from Kasparov and would no longer use him as a trainer, [93] although this was put into different context by Carlsen himself in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegelin which he stated that they would remain in contact and he would continue to attend training sessions with Kasparov. Kasparov gave me a great deal of practical help. That was the most important thing. Carlsen shared first place alongside Ivanchuk in the Amber blindfold and rapid tournament. Carlsen had also helped Anand prepare for the World Chess Championships in and Carlsen's next tournament was the Grand Slam Masters Final on 9—15 October, which he had qualified for automatically by winning three of the previous year's four Grand Slam chess events Pearl Spring, Corus, Bazna Kings. Along with Carlsen, the finals consisted of World Champion Anand and the highest two scorers from the How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games stage held in Shanghai in September: Kramnik and Shirov. In the first round, Carlsen lost with black to Kramnik; this was Carlsen's second consecutive loss to Kramnik, and placed his hold on the world No. In his second round, Carlsen lost with the white pieces to Anand; this was his first loss as White since January These setbacks called into question from some whether Carlsen's activities outside chess, such as modelling for G-Star Rawwere distracting him from performing well at the chessboard. With early wins over Bacrot, , and Topalov with white, Carlsen took the early lead, extending his winning streak with white in Nanjing to eight. This streak was halted by a draw to Anand in round seven, but in the penultimate round Carlsen secured first place by defeating Topalov with black. This was his second victory in the tournament over the former world No. On 5 November, Carlsen withdrew from the Candidates Tournamenthaving qualified as the highest rated challenger, citing dissatisfaction with the World Championship cycle format. Carlsen had a rocky start, losing his games to McShane and Anand in rounds 1 and 3, but winning with white against Adams and Nakamura in rounds 2 and 4. He joined the lead with a win over Howell in round 5, and managed to stay in the lead following a harrowing draw against Kramnik in round 6, before defeating Short in the last round. Carlsen won his White games against Nakamura, Nisipeanu, and Ivanchuk and drew the rest of the games. Carlsen won the 44th Biel Grandmaster tournamentheld from 16 to 29 July. This was Carlsen's second title. Carlsen then won the blitz tiebreak against Ivanchuk. Another tournament victory was achieved in the Tal Memorial in Moscow 16—25 November as a round robin with ten players. Carlsen won two games, against Gelfand and Nakamura, and drew the rest. Although he finished equal on points with Aronian, he placed ahead since the tiebreak was determined by the number of black games; Carlsen had five black games, while Aronian only had four. In the , played 3—12 December, Carlsen's streak of tournament victories ended when he finished third, behind Kramnik and Nakamura. Carlsen won three games and drew five. Although he did not win the tournament, Carlsen gained rating points, rising to a new personal record of How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games the main event a category 22 ten-player round robin How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games, he won two games and drew seven. He finished in first place, ahead How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games Radjabov and Caruana. Carlsen then went on to finish second in the Biel Grandmaster Tournament, with 18 points, just one point behind using the 3—1—0 scoring system. He also defeated the winner Wang in both of their individual games. Bacrot deprived Carlsen of a win in the classical tournament by holding him to a draw in the final round. Carlsen won the tournament by winning both tiebreak games against Caruana. As part of it, Carlsen took on an online audience dubbed as "The World" with the white pieces and won. Before this, Nielsen was on 's team. Carlsen played in the Candidates Tournamentwhich took place in London, from 15 March to 1 April. As a result, he earned the right to challenge Anand for the World Championship. Chess star Magnus Carlsen: my dream rival - CNN

The game of chess just keeps getting younger and younger! Grandmaster titles are now being achieved at twelve, thirteen, and fourteen years of age. Young talents are able to take advantage of the wealth of information, consistent and regular tournaments, and government supports on a global level. The one thing that remains from the dawn of chess is that to reach the top hard-work is still king. This list from October 22, showcases the top 37 youngest grandmasters. Sergey Karjakin 's record still holds, with a close second with India's newest grandmaster Gukesh Dommaraju. GM Gukesh just missed out on the How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games place record by seventeen days! Sergey Karjakin still holds the record for the youngest grandmaster in chess history at 12 years old and 7 months! Like many children, Karjakin learned chess at the age of five, and just six years later at the age of 11 he was an international master. Though Karjakin lost this match to Carlsen in Novemberhe still has aspirations to challenge the champion in the future. Karjakin played one of the best games of his career against Caruana at the Candidates' Tournament. This fighting, How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games game shows the trademark style of Karjakin. Gukesh's talent was spotted by his first and school coach Mr. Bhaskar, who made sure little Gukesh became a FIDE rated player within six months of learning the game! Gukesh played his last game as an International Master, winning this game to earn his final grandmaster . When Javokhir How Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games earned the grandmaster title, he was the first player since Karjakin to reach the title before he turned 13! He scored his third grandmaster norm at the fourth Gredine open in Ortisei, Italy. Praggnanandhaa first made his name known by winning continental Asian championships and two world championship titles. Having already earned his final GM norm in the Gredine open, the Indian prodigy beat GM Roeland Pruijssers to finish a record-breaking tournament performance:. Abdusattorov's name made headlines first when he defeated two grandmasters at the age of nine, in at the Tashkent Open. Sethuraman and Evgeny Levin. Now a PhD student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Negi earned the grandmaster title back in when he was just 13 years old. Since he got the title, Negi has won the Arjuna Award from the Indian government, the Indian and Asian Chess Championships, and was a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the Olympiad for India. Negi's performance in this win against GM Ragger was a fantastic demonstration on how to beat the Caro-Kann, as White's pressure throughout the game was constant. With fierce determination and a palpable will to win, he has dazzled fans with his ability to out-work his opponents and find computer-like moves in his games time after time. While Carlsen is most known for grinding out wins in near-equal endgames, his most famous game might be his draw against Garry Kasparov, when he was just 13 years old. has broken all kinds of rating and age records throughout his lifetime. He is also the 2nd youngest player in history to break the rating barrier, after John M. Wei's quick progress is apparent, earning both the international master and grandmaster titles in the same year. Raunak Sadhwani is currently India's fourth youngest ever grandmaster. At the time of writing October the prodigy hasn't turned 13 yet, but he did recently secure his GM title! Sadhwani ended up scoring 50 percent in a strong field. Bu Xiangzhi earned his title inmaking him the youngest GM in chess history when he broke the record Karjakin would break the record in Bu won the Chinese Chess Championship inand has since represented in four Olympiads, including the Olympiad where China won gold. A well- known talent, Bu made more headlines in when he eliminated Magnus Carlsen in the World Cupand then beat the world champion again in the World Rapid Championship later that same year. When Humpy Koneru made the grandmaster title inshe broke the record for fastest woman to reach the GM title at just 15 years and 1 month. Inthe Indian grandmaster was the challenger for the women's world championship title, where she lost to . Over fifteen years later, Koneru is still one of the best female players in the world. One of Koneru's best wins came against Peruvian grandmaster Julio Granda Zuniga, where the final position is a worthy Puzzle Rush tactic! Judit Polgar is the only female player to have ever broken and is the strongest women's chess player of all-time. There is no game in Judit Polgar's career that is more famous than her victory over Garry Kasparov in Lagno won the European women's championship in both andHow Magnus Carlsen Became the Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Story and the Games played in the women's world championship against . The grandmaster is now set to compete in the inaugural Women's Speed Chess Championship. Grandmaster Aleksandra Goryachkina has taken the chess world by storm. At just 20 years old, the Russian grandmaster has already broken the top 10 women's list. Inshe won the Russian women's championship superfinal. The Russian grandmaster repeated the feat in While perhaps not her toughest opponent, Goryachkina showed how dangerous she can be in this display against the Stonewall Dutch:. is one of the strongest female players in China. Lei has participated in a myriad of team events for China that have resulted in gold medals: the Asian Nations Cupthe Batumi Olympiad and the World Team Championship Here's a game Lei won in the World Rapid Championships with Black, a complete positional masterclass from start to finish! Do you think that these records will be broken with the new computer-powered generations? Please, let us know in the comments section. Updated: Feb 27,AM. Top 37 Youngest Chess Grandmasters No. Karjakin during one of his games at the Tata Steel Chess tournament in January More from IsaacSteincamp. Articles For Beginners. Opening Theory. Amazing Games. Chess Players. Study Plans. Curriculum for Kids.