Magnus Carlsen

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen(born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, five-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and the reigning (shared with Ian Nepomniachtchi) eight time World Blitz Chess Champion. He has held the No. 1 position in the FIDE world chess rankings since 1 July 2011 and trails only Garry Kasparov in time spent as the highest-rated player in the world, while holding the record for the longest consecutive reign. 

Magnus Carlsen, the renowned chess grandmaster, stands at 5'11" (1.80 meters). 

His father, a keen amateur chess player, taught him to play at the age of five, although he initially showed little interest in it. Magnus has three sisters; he has said his original motivation to study chess seriously was a desire to be able to beat his elder sister.Carlsen developed his early chess skills by playing by himself. Carlsen had an exceptional memory and could recall the locations, populations, flags and capitals of all the countries in the world by the age of five.[ He participated in his first tournament—the youngest division of the 1999 Norwegian Chess Championship—at 8 years and 7 months, and scored 6/11.

Magnus Carlsen, a Norwegian chess grandmaster, is a five-time World Chess Champion, a four-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and a six-time World Blitz Chess Champion, holding the number one position in the FIDE world chess rankings since 2011. He won the World Chess Championship in 2013 and successfully defended his title against Viswanathan Anand in 2014, 2016, and 2018, and against Ian Nepomniachtchi in 2021. 

• Magnus Carlsen is the youngest person to reach No. 1 in the FIDE world rankings. Apart from being the reigning Chess World Cup Champion, Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, four-time World Rapid Chess Champion, and six-time World Blitz Chess Champion. He holds the record for the longest unbeaten streak at the elite level in classical chess. Carlsen is known for using a variety of openings, making his opponents difficult to prepare against him.
• Soon after his birth in Tønsberg, Norway, his family lived in Espoo, Finland, for one year following which they moved to Brussels, Belgium. In 1998, the family returned to Norway, where they started living in Lommedalen, Bærum, and later moved to Haslum.
• According to Carlsen, when he was five and a half or six years old, his father taught him and his oldest sister, Ellen, the rules of chess for the first time; however, unlike Ellen, he didn’t show much interest in the game and stopped it soon. Carlsen says he started developing an interest in the game when he turned eight. In an interview, Carlsen talked about this and said,