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Magnus Carlsen Introduction
Magnus Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster and is currently ranked as the highest-rated chess player in history and an unbeatable player at the classical chess of elite level.
He has been ruling the position of World Chess Championship five times and has won four times the World Rapid Chess Championship and six times the World Blitz Chess Championship.
Magnus Carlsen Net Worth & Salary
Magnus Carlsen’s Net worth is $50M. His annual income is around $1M.
Besides earning and sponsorships from chess tournaments, he had a record-breaking deal with Unibet which pays him $2M every year.
Magnus Carlsen Age, Early Life & Biography
Magnus Carlsen’s age is 32 years currently.
He was born in Tønsberg, Norway but the major part of his childhood had been spent in different countries like Finland and Belgium due to the job commitments of his working parents. They settled in Haslum, Norway in the late 1990s.
From childhood, the young Carlsen had shown his fascination with jigsaw puzzles. He had shown his aptitude to tackle intellectual challenges at an early age and began to do things that were beyond his age.
His father was an amateur chess player who had a great fascination with chess and served as the first teacher who taught him how to play chess and strategies. His motivation to continue this game was fueled by the desire to beat his elder sisters at their own game.
He used to practice by himself for hours using strategies that his father had demonstrated to him earlier. He read books like Find the Plan and The Complete Dragon to improvise his chess skills by applying them during practice sessions.
He had an exceptional memory during childhood and had memorized the map of the geography of the whole world, with flags, and country names with locations and their capitals when he was five and went on to memorize the location of all administrative centers of 356 Norwegian municipalities and geographical features of the country.
He had dropped out after high school to pursue chess as a lifetime career and commitment.
| Name: | Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 32 years old |
| Birth Date: | November 30, 1990 |
| Birth Place: | Tønsberg |
| Nationality: | Norway |
| Height: | 1.78m |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | Single |
| Wife/Spouse (Name): | – |
| Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): | – |
| Dating/Girlfriend (Name): | Elisabeth Lorentzen Djnne |
| Profession: | Chess Grandmaster |
| Yearly Income: | $1M |
| Net Worth | $50M |
| Content Last Updated: | December 2022 |
Magnus Carlsen Personal Life
As far as his family is concerned, his father Henrik Albert Carlsen professionally worked as an IT consultant and his mother was a well-renowned chemical engineer. They had three daughters besides Magnus.
He has been in a relationship with Elisabeth Lorentzen Djnne for a few years now. Carlsen is a private person and very few facts are known about his personal life to the public.
Magnus Carlsen Career
Magnus had started playing around age 8 and had been coached by Grandmaster Simen Agdestein with Egil Olsen football coaching as the key inspiration for training the young Magnus.
After finishing primary education, he traveled Europe for a year and participated in International Master and Grandmaster Levels. He won the title of “Mozart of Chess” from Grandmaster Lubomir Kavalek when he won the C group round at the Corus Chess tournament.
He defeated the world champion Anatoly Karpov in the Blitz chess tournament in 2004 and went on to have a draw against Garry Kasparov in the same tournament. His skills earned him recognition as a dark horse at the elite level of the World Chess Championships.
Over the years in his professional career, he has had some wonderful achievements out of which was the Grandmaster in the Dubai Open Chess Championship in April 2004. 2005 was the year of glory for him. He had participated in a lot of Norwegian Chess Championships and won them all which resulted in him being qualified for one of the top 10 candidates of the Official World Championship.
When he took part in the Linares Chess Tournament which was considered the “Wimbledon of Chess”, his real skills are put to test against top-rated players like Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, and Levon Aronian, and he ended up with the second place.
Very few people know that Magnus Carlsen has participated in Melody Amber blind and rapid chess championships where he has to play chess in rapid-fire mode while being blindfolded. This tournament put his real skills and knowledge about chess to the test. He came in 8th position in the entire match in 2007.
He participated in the Melody Amber championship held in Nice, France to retest his refined skill again. He came out in the second position in the entire championship.
In 2013, he battled against Vishwanathan Anand, the former World Chess Champion then and defeated him in the finals and took the mantle of youngest World Chess Champion in 2014 and has defended against it till now.
Magnus Carlsen Awards & Achievements
Words spoken about his glory may seem to be very meager compared to what he had achieved through his dedication and love for chess.
He won the Chess Oscars, which was conducted by 64, a Russian chess magazine from 2009-2013 had regarded him as the year’s best player. He had been felicitated with “Sportsman of The Year” in 2009 by Verdens Gang.
He has the highest Elo rating in the world at 2882.
Magnus Carlsen Major Investments and Assets
He is the owner of the Play Magnus AS app which earns a small amount which contributed to his growing fortune.
The rest of his fortune and assets were kept private.
Magnus Carlsen Must Watch Latest Video and Trending Photographs
Magnus Carlsen interview after World Blitz Chess Championship 2022. He shares his experience and excitement from this year’s game.
