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Chess prince,19,ready to be king

(China Daily)
Updated: 2010-02-23 08:13
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Great memory and focus took young Norwegian to the top of the game very quickly, with some help from mentor Garry Kasparov

OSLO: He recently completed high school without huge success, but 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen is now already at the top of the chess world, following the footsteps of his mentor, legendary chess champion Garry Kasparov.

Chess prince,19,ready to be king
Norwegian chess genius Magnus Carlsen, 19, is setting his sights on the title of world champion. [Agencies] 
On New Year's Day, the mop-haired, sulky-looking Norwegian teen became the youngest player to ever top the rankings of best players published by the International Chess Federation (FIDE).

Now he is setting his sights on the title of world champion.

"It's been one of my goals for many years to become the number one player and that's about as far as you can reach in chess without winning the world championship. Obviously it's a big thing," Carlsen said.

"The downside, of course, is that you have to answer questions like this a lot," he added, matter-of-factly.

Initiated into chess early on by his father, as a boy Magnus nevertheless preferred other pastimes which he explored on his own.

Aged 2, he could recite a long list of car brands; as a 5-year-old, he built monumental creations out of Lego; then he moved on to memorizing the world's countries, their flags, capitals, and areas, and more lists.

Prodigy's start

But he was soon brought back to chess by the desire to beat his older sister at the game.

He played in his first tournament at the age of 8 and burst onto the chess scene when in 2004, at 13, he beat former world champion Anatoli Karpov, pushed Kasparov to a draw and became a chess grandmaster.

"The Mozart of Chess" was born, as the Washington Post put it.

The teen quickly became a regular of the chess circuit, where he could be seen with his shirt untucked and at times yawning and stretching during games.

Despite his sluggish appearance, he climbed the chess hierarchy at dazzling speed.

So much so that only a month after his nineteenth birthday, he wowed the chess universe as the youngest player to ever top the world rankings.

Kasparov, who has coached Carlsen since 2009, was 20 years and nine months old when he made it to that milestone.

"Before he is done, Carlsen will have changed our ancient game considerably," Kasparov told Time magazine in January.

The Russian player has helped the young Norwegian add a good measure of calculation and a broader repertory of openings to the extraordinary intuition that guides his quick and exact moves.

A regular teen

But Carlsen also seeks to be a regular teen, spending his free time chatting on the Internet and playing football, squash and tennis.

School, on the other hand, is definitely not his cup of tea.

"I've focused on chess for many years, so I didn't care too much in the last few years," he said when asked about his final exam results.

"Magnus has normally been excellent at whatever he is interested in and if he's not interested, then the results are not necessarily excellent," his father Henrik intervened, explaining "there were probably not enough subjects (in school) in the last few years that he was definitely interested in."

The benevolent figure has accompanied his son throughout his chess career, and is quick to admit he hasn't beat Magnus at the game for nine years.

"If I can understand what he's doing when he is playing, then I'm happy," he added.

For Magnus, the only title left to conquer is that of world champion, which he can only aspire to obtain in 2011 or 2012, because of the unpredictability of FIDE's system.

The chess prodigy admits he thinks about the title, but without obsessing over it.

"A lot of players have got lost waiting for world championship matches... And for me, it's much easier to think that the world championship is far in the future and I won't focus on it too much," he said.

"As for now, I'm focusing more on playing in tournaments and on winning them and staying at the number one rank," he added.

AFP

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