Magnus Carlsen: Mozart of Chess Who Walked Away From the World Title

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Magnus Carlsen solved 50-piece puzzles at two and built teenage Lego sets at four, but ignored chess when his father first tried to teach him at five. He only took it up to beat his older sister. By five he had memorized the flags, capitals and populations of every country, and in 2000 his rating jumped from 904 in June to 1907 in December. He grew up playing football and ski jumping, and his coach Simon Agdestein drew on the methods of a Norwegian football manager. In 2004, at 13, he won the C group at Wijk aan Zee, became a grandmaster, beat Anatoly Karpov at blitz and drew Garry Kasparov at rapid.

In 2009 he hired Kasparov as his trainer and broadened his openings to escape computer preparation; that year he passed 2800 at 18, and in 2010 he became the youngest world number one. He took the title from Viswanathan Anand in Chennai in 2013 and defended it against Anand, Sergey Karjakin, Fabiano Caruana and Ian Nepomniachtchi. In 2023 he declined to defend the classical crown, citing lack of motivation for months of engine preparation, and turned to rapid, blitz, the Champions Chess Tour and freestyle chess. He married Ella Victoria Malone in early 2025, and the couple had a son later that year.

His attacking win over Sipke Ernst in 2004 earned him the nickname the Mozart of chess.
Game six against Nepomniachtchi in 2021 lasted 136 moves and nearly eight hours, the longest world championship game.
He reached a peak rating of 2882 in May 2014 and went 125 classical games unbeaten.
He held the classical, rapid and blitz world titles at the same time more than once.
In 2025 he lost to Gukesh Dommaraju at Norway Chess.

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