New Name: World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen
Under the heading "New Name" Once a week we talk about promising newcomers - musicians, directors, artists and other creative people. That is, everyone whose name is increasingly appearing on the pages of magazines, in the tapes of social networks and in our conversations, and who is clearly on the verge of great success. Today we will talk about the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen - the new world chess champion, whom journalists have already called "Mozart Chess".
YouTube is full of videos with Magnus Carlsen, most of them are recordings of chess games, in which a young Norwegian with a heavy look technically and competently moves figures on the board. Let's be honest, for ordinary people (that is, people like us), these videos are of little interest. But there is one short video that explains the best and more accessible ones why Magnus Carlsen is a real rock star. He is still a young chess player with a childlike smile that tells about his far-reaching plans: to become a grandmaster in the coming months, and a world champion until 2020. Grandmaster Carlsen received in 13, becoming one of the youngest owners of the title in history. As for the world champion, he achieved this goal ahead of time - at the end of last week he won the title against 43-year-old Indian Viswanathan Anand.
For people keen on chess, Carlsen is far from a new name: the fate of the world's strongest chess player was prophesied for several years in a row. The owner of a photographic memory, he showed outstanding results and missed during the game with Garry Kasparov in the mid-2000s, being a youngster. Later, admiring Kasparov, one of the few superstar chess players whose name is known even to the most distant person from chess, temporarily became Carlsen’s personal trainer and even wrote a note about the Norwegian when he was on the list of 100 Most Influential People of 2013 according to Time . In that note, Kasparov described the current period in the history of chess as “the era of Carlsen”.
Magnus’s playing style is called “lazy grace” and the Norwegian is simultaneously compared with Mozart — for what often acts intuitively — and for the machine — for what equanimity, if not composure, he can harass partners and look for winning combinations for hours. Carlsen himself many times disown the label of a genius, saying that he is an ordinary guy: he likes to sleep until noon, look through comic books, play online poker or play football. At the same time, at the age of 22, he earns $ 1.5 million a year and can easily criticize the International Chess Federation for an unfairly organized system of playing for the world champion title. Among the admirers of Magnus Carlsen (in addition to the crowds of fans who meet him around the world) - the American director JJ Abrams. He even offered the Norwegian the role of a chess player from the future in the film "Startrek: Retribution", and he agreed, but could not get permission to work in the United States by the right time, so the debut film did not take place. However, the title of the new sex symbol Carlsen was partly confirmed: he successfully replaced Johnny Depp in the advertising campaign of the fashion brand G-Star, for which the chess player, along with Liv Tyler, was shot by the popular photographer Anton Corbein.
Well, Wonderzine would not be a female edition, if it had not touched on such an important detail as the personal life of Magnus Carlsen. The chess player does not have a girlfriend, but there is a clear intention to somehow resolve this issue immediately after the World Cup, that is, now. But don't tell him how you used to play chess with your grandfather as a child: Carlsen says that he did not hear anything more boring than similar stories.
Magnus was congratulated on the title of World Chess Champion in the most fun way - he was picked up and thrown into the pool. the champion was pleased
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