Magnus Carlsen is just 30 years old, but for 17 of those years he’s been a grandmaster, for 10, the world no. 1, and for the last 8, the World Chess Champion. A 7-part documentary that aired during the Magnus …
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World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen hasn’t won a tournament since Altibox Norway Chess in mid-October, and even then a last-round loss to Levon Aronian took some of the gloss off the win. In the aftermath of losing the final of …
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The Magnus Carlsen Invitational sees the World Chess Champion challenge seven of his biggest rivals to a 2-week, $250,000 battle. The 8-player online event starting April 18th will fill the current void in top-level chess, and indeed sport in general, …
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Magnus Carlsen commentated live for 40 minutes with Jan Gustafsson during Day 2 of the Grand Chess Tour finals in London. The World Chess Champion went into detail on the recent match against Fabiano Caruana and shared his own views …
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The Norwegian’s second place at the Sinquefield Cup, combined with failures from Fabiano Caruana and Wesley So, was enough to keep him clear at the top Magnus Carlsen fought off two challenges to his world No1 ranking at last week’s …
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World chess champion Magnus Carlsen is the subject of the new documentary, “Magnus,” screened at the Palace Theatre in Danbury as part of the Hearst Movie & A Martini series. A new documentary about the Norwegian world chess champion Magnus …
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The greatest champions are defined not by winning when all the tumblers are aligned in their favor, but by how they persist and problem-solve and pull it from the bag when they’re not at their best. Serena Williams scratching out …
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