"In July, Carlsen and Berge Østenstad (then the reigning Norwegian champion) tied for first in the Norwegian Chess Championship, each scoring 7/9. A two-game match between them was arranged to decide the title. Both games were drawn, which left Østenstad the champion because he had superior tiebreaks in the tournament. In the Smartfish Chess Masters event at the Drammen International Chess Festival 2004–05, Carlsen defeated Alexei Shirov, then ranked No. 10 in the world, as well as the co-winner of the tournament. In the semi-finals of the Ciudad de León rapid chess tournament in June, Carlsen played a four-game match"
"age of 5. Carlsen's goal is to use Play Magnus as a platform to encourage more people to play chess. In August 2013, Carlsen became an ambassador for Nordic Semiconductor, and in November was selected as one of the ""sexiest men of 2013"" by ""Cosmopolitan"". In a 2008 Q&A session with ""Nettavisen"", Carlsen was asked whether he had autism, and replied ""Well, isn't that obvious?"" In a December 2013 interview with ""Verdens Gang"", he clarified that the response was a joke and he had meant ""obviously not"", also stating: ""I consider myself to have normal social skills and to be"
"tournament raised his FIDE rating to 2801, making him, aged 18 years and 336 days, the youngest player ever to surpass 2800 Elo. The youngest before Carlsen to achieve this feat was Vladimir Kramnik at the age of 25, and up until this point only Kasparov, Topalov, Kramnik, and Anand had achieved a 2800+ rating. The FIDE rankings in January 2010 recorded Carlsen's rating at 2810, which made him No. 1 rated player in the world. This meant that Carlsen became, at the age of 19 years and 32 days, the youngest ever world No. 1, as well as the"
"a rating of 2800 in 2009 and reached number one in the FIDE world rankings in 2010, becoming the youngest person ever to achieve those feats. Carlsen became World Champion in 2013 by defeating Viswanathan Anand. In the following year, he retained his title against Anand, and won both the 2014 World Rapid Championship and World Blitz Championship, thus becoming the first player to simultaneously hold all three titles. He defended his main world title against Sergey Karjakin in 2016, and against Fabiano Caruana in 2018. Known for his attacking style as a teenager, Carlsen has since developed into a"
"the junior players of the world. She is the daughter of Søren Tauson, a brother of former tennis player Michael Tauson. Clara Tauson Clara Tauson (born 21 December 2002 in Gentofte, Greater Copenhagen) is a Danish tennis player playing for KB Tennis (Copenhagen Tennis) and Denmark's Fed Cup team. In 2016, at age 13, she became the youngest woman to win the Danish championship, beating the record set by a 14-year-old Caroline Wozniacki. She is the reigning European Youth Olympic Festival champion from 2017. She has won four single tournaments on the ITF Junior Circuit and - since her debut"
"age. Richard founded the Shell Formula Ford Scholarship in the early 1990s, which launched the career of many drivers including Bathurst winner Greg Murphy. Jono Lester didn’t take the conventional junior pathway of karting, beginning his driving career in Formula Vee at age 13. He dovetailed his two seasons in Formula Vee with Formula Challenge, and occasional races in HQ Holdens and the North Island Endurance Series. He won the 2014 Formula Challenge Summer Series. Lester’s career took another unconventional turn when he graduated to the Porsche GT3 Cup in 2006. In doing so he became the world's youngest competitor"
"the youngest person to surpass 2600 Elo (the record has since been broken by Wesley So, Wei Yi and John M. Burke). In the July 2007 FIDE rankings, at the age of 16 years and 213 days, Carlsen attained a 2710 Elo rating, which made him the youngest person to surpass 2700 Elo (the record has since been broken by Wei Yi). On 5 September 2008, after winning in round 4 of the Bilbao Masters, Carlsen, aged 17 years and 280 days old, briefly became No. 1 on the unofficial live ratings list. Carlsen's victory in the 2009 Nanjing Pearl"
"twice, in 2009 and 2013. VG also named him ""Sportsman of the Year"" in 2009. Carlsen has also won the ""Folkets Idrettspris"", a people's choice award from the Norwegian newspaper ""Dagbladet"", in 2009 and 2010. In 2011, he was awarded the Peer Gynt Prize, a Norwegian prize awarded annually to ""a person or institution that has achieved distinction in society"". In 2013, ""Time"" magazine named Carlsen one of the 100 most influential people in the world. In the January 2006 FIDE rankings, at the age of 15 years and 32 days, Carlsen attained a 2625 Elo rating, which made him"
"Finland, and then in Brussels, Belgium, before returning to Norway in 1998, where they lived in Lommedalen, Bærum. They later moved to Haslum. Carlsen showed an aptitude for intellectual challenges at a young age: at two years, he could solve 50-piece jigsaw puzzles; at four, he enjoyed assembling Lego sets with instructions intended for children aged 10–14. His father, a keen amateur chess player, taught him to play chess at the age of 5, although he initially showed little interest in the game. He has three sisters, and in 2010 he stated that one of the things that first motivated"
"the youngest ever champion in the series' history at the age of 16 - beating the record set by Lewis Hamilton who won the Championship aged 18. November 2010 saw Blomqvist compete in the iconic Macau Grand Prix. Driving for Eurointernational he secured 3rd place with fastest lap time in the Formula BMW Pacific race. In December 2010 Blomqvist was a McLaren Autosport BRDC Award finalist as well as receiving the Autosport British Club Driver Of The Year Award. At the British Racing Drivers' Club awards he received the Henry Surtees Award for the most outstanding performance by a rising"
"youngest sailors ever to do so. They also won the under-16 and under-18 world championships. At 16 years old Burling successfully defended his 420 title to win the 420 Class Worlds sailed in Auckland. He also won the under-18 world championship. Burling finished 6th in the 2007 470 Europeans – his first international 470 regatta and had his best world ranking in the 470 of 5th in 2008. Burling was the helmsman for Emirates Team New Zealand's 2017 America's Cup campaign, which was raced in Bermuda. On 27 June 2017, he became the youngest winning helmsman in the history of"
"than 90% of the race distance. Did not finish, but was classified as he had completed more than 90% of the race distance. Kevin Magnussen Kevin Jan Magnussen (born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver, currently driving for the Haas F1 Team. The son of four-time Le Mans GT class winner, GM factory driver and former Formula One driver Jan Magnussen, Kevin Magnussen came up through McLaren Formula One team's Young Driver Programme and drove for McLaren in the 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship. Born in Roskilde, Denmark, Magnussen began his career in karting. In 2008 he"
"System tournament. The participants included 46 Grandmasters, which was also a new record, eight Woman Grandmasters, 39 International Masters, five Woman International Masters, 22 Fide Masters and two Woman Fide Masters. The tournament is also known to have attracted many young talented players, including world champion Magnus Carlsen, who earned his final GM norm with a round to spare in the 2004, making him the world's youngest GM at the time and the third-youngest GM in history at the age of 13 years, four months and 27 days. Other notable teenagers who have graced the tournament include Azerbaijan’s Shakriyar Mamedyarov,"
"the beginning"". Kent Carlsson Kent Carlsson (born 3 January 1968) is a former tennis player from Sweden. A seasoned claycourter, he won all nine of his ATP tour singles titles on the surface, including the 1988 Hamburg Masters. Carlsson achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 6 in September 1988. Carlsson was a successful junior winning the Kalle Anka Cup, which is a Swedish junior tournament through the under 11, under 13s twice and under 15. He still holds the record for the most titles wins at 4 in front of Thomas Enqvist and Thomas Johansson who won it"
"Clara Tauson Clara Tauson (born 21 December 2002 in Gentofte, Greater Copenhagen) is a Danish tennis player playing for KB Tennis (Copenhagen Tennis) and Denmark's Fed Cup team. In 2016, at age 13, she became the youngest woman to win the Danish championship, beating the record set by a 14-year-old Caroline Wozniacki. She is the reigning European Youth Olympic Festival champion from 2017. She has won four single tournaments on the ITF Junior Circuit and - since her debut in 2017 - won one tournament on the ITF Women's Circuit. As of July 2018 she is in top 10 among"
"Kent Carlsson Kent Carlsson (born 3 January 1968) is a former tennis player from Sweden. A seasoned claycourter, he won all nine of his ATP tour singles titles on the surface, including the 1988 Hamburg Masters. Carlsson achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 6 in September 1988. Carlsson was a successful junior winning the Kalle Anka Cup, which is a Swedish junior tournament through the under 11, under 13s twice and under 15. He still holds the record for the most titles wins at 4 in front of Thomas Enqvist and Thomas Johansson who won it 3 times."
"Kevin Magnussen Kevin Jan Magnussen (born 5 October 1992) is a Danish racing driver, currently driving for the Haas F1 Team. The son of four-time Le Mans GT class winner, GM factory driver and former Formula One driver Jan Magnussen, Kevin Magnussen came up through McLaren Formula One team's Young Driver Programme and drove for McLaren in the 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship. Born in Roskilde, Denmark, Magnussen began his career in karting. In 2008 he made the step up to Formula Ford in Denmark, winning the championship. He also raced in six races of the ADAC Formel Masters"
"Two times the award went to the Danish Davis Cup team, of which Kenneth Carlsen until 2003 was a central part (having a 29–13 record in singles). Carlsen began playing tennis at age nine, and in his teens became one of the best juniors in the world. He finished as no. 3 in the world in 1991. He turned full-time professional in 1992, and his breakthrough as senior in a major tournament came at the Copenhagen Open where he beat top-20 player Alexander Volkov in the first round. Later that year, he reached the final in Brisbane—-only his fourth ATP"
"since being introduced to it by his mother in his mid-teens. During his time with Liverpool's academy, he and teammate Kris Owens pledged to support the initiative if either of them made it as professional footballers. He is also an avid chess player, having been introduced to the sport by his father as a youngster, and in 2018 he played an invitational match against world champion Magnus Carlsen. The match, which was played to promote the sport, ended in defeat for Alexander-Arnold after seventeen moves, eight more than technology entreprenuer Bill Gates managed when he faced Carlsen a few months"
"Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen Torbjørn Ringdal Hansen (born 1979) is a Norwegian chess player. He achieved the title International Master in 2008, and was awarded the Grandmaster title in 2015. Ringdal Hansen was the first coach of later World Champion Magnus Carlsen, from 2000 to 2001, when Ringdal Hansen served a one-year alternative civilian service programme at the Norwegian College of Elite Sport. Carlsen was nine years old at the time, and trained chess in a group along with two other children, organized by Ringdal Hansen. Carlsen's rating improved from about 900 to 1,900 during this one-year period. Ringdal Hansen achieved"
"Kate A. Murphy Kate Murphy (born May 7, 1985) is a co-founder and CEO of ""Play Magnus"", a company majority owned by the World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen and working to take chess to more people around the world with a focus on youth. Murphy launched Play Magnus in 2013 with Magnus Chess As (a company owned by Magnus Carlsen and chaired by his father, Henrik Carlsen), his manager Espen Agdestein and the chairman and first angel investor, Anders Brandt. Play Magnus aims to engage young people through digital products to engage their brains on their mobile device, using chess"
"the wisest."" When Carlson was an infant, his father contracted tuberculosis, and also later suffered from arthritis of the spine (a common, age-related disease). When Olaf moved the family to Mexico for a seven-month period in 1910, in hopes of gaining riches through what Carlson described as ""a crazy American land colonization scheme,"" Ellen contracted malaria. Because of his parents' illnesses, and the resulting poverty, Carlson worked to support his family from an early age; he began working odd jobs for money when he was eight. By the time he was thirteen, he would work for two or three hours"
"as an agent for Carlsen in late 2008. Agdestein's work consisted initially of finding sponsors and negotiating media contacts but, since 2011, he has taken over management tasks formerly performed by Carlsen's father Henrik. According to ""The New York Times"", Carlsen earned US$1.2 million in 2012, the bulk of which was from sponsorships. In October 2013, Carlsen started his majority-owned company, Play Magnus AS. Based in Oslo, Norway, Play Magnus' first product was an iOS app, called ""Play Magnus"", that allows the user to play a chess engine created using a database of thousands of Carlsen's recorded games from the"
"Nils Carlsén Nils Carlsén (born April 21, 1985 in Sundsvall) is a Swedish curler. Carlsén who began curling in 1996, had been a very successful junior curler for Sweden. He has curled in six World Junior Curling Championships (2001–2006)- finishing in the top-2 in the last five. In 2001, Carlsén played lead for the Swedish team skipped by Eric Carlsén, and they finished fifth. In 2002 he played second for Eric and finished second- losing to Canada's David Hamblin in the final. In 2003 Carlsén picked up another silver medal losing to Steve Laycock of Canada. Nils once again played"
"player in the world, with a FIDE rating of 2710. He became the youngest ever world No. 1, a record that lasted 12 years until being broken by Vladimir Kramnik in January 1996; the record is currently held by Magnus Carlsen. Later in 1984, he won the Candidates' final 8½–4½ (four wins, no losses) against the resurgent former world champion Vasily Smyslov, at Vilnius, thus qualifying to play Anatoly Karpov for the World Championship. That year he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), as a member of which he was elected to the Central Committee of Komsomol"
"Carling Bassett-Seguso Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso (born 9 October 1967) is a former Canadian professional tennis player. Bassett is the daughter of John F. Bassett and Susan Carling, and the granddaughter of media baron John Bassett and politician and brewery executive John Carling. She was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. In 1981, Bassett won the Canadian junior indoor tennis title. In 1982, she was ranked No. 2 junior player in the world after winning events in Tokyo and Taipei. That year, she also became the youngest winner of the Canadian closed championship at the age of"
"driver to win a race at 18 years and 228 days, he also was the youngest to stand on a Formula One podium, in both instances breaking Sebastian Vettel's record set at the 2008 Italian Grand Prix by more than two years. Vettel had been 21 years and 2 months at the time. Verstappen also became the youngest driver to lead at least one lap of a Grand Prix, again overcoming a record set by Vettel, at the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix. Verstappen also was the first driver born in the 1990s to win a Grand Prix. He received considerable"
"Øyvind Asbjørnsen Øyvind VonDoren Asbjørnsen (born 28 November 1963) is a Norwegian film producer, director entrepreneur and watch creator. He has made several documentaries, TV-series and short films. One of his most notable work was ""The Prince of Chess"", a 2005 full-length documentary about 13-year-old chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen. He is the Executive Producer and cinematographer of the feature documentary MAGNUS who world premiered at Tribecca Film Festival in April 2016. Øyvind Asbjørnsen has since the early 90s used the pseudonym Asa Von Doren in many of his films. in 2016 he also changed his name to include Von Doren"
"kr for drunken driving. Andresen's blood-alcohol content was three times the legal limit. Alongside the fine, the sentence included 18 days of imprisonment and a 13-month license suspension. Katharina Andresen Katharina Gamlemshaug Andresen (born 21 May 1995) is a Norwegian heiress, and as of June 2018, the world's second-youngest billionaire (US$1.4 billion) as reported by ""Forbes"". She is the daughter of Johan H. Andresen Jr., owner of Ferd AS, who, in 2007, transferred 42.2% ownership stakes each to Katharina and her sister Alexandra. She is the great-granddaughter of Johan H. Andresen, great-great-granddaughter of Johan Henrik Andresen and Anton Klaveness, and"
"his father taught him to play chess at the age of five. He took up the sport seriously when he was nine and began to compete in club and youth tournaments before venturing out into the international chess scene. He finished 8th in the 2002 Under-12 European Youth Chess Championship, tying with Magnus Carlsen on 6 points while Ian Nepomniachtchi won with 8. In 2007 he became internationally known when he won the Under-18 division at the European Youth Chess Championship in Šibenik, scoring 7 out of 9. The following year he earned the grandmaster title and won the 2008"
"the youngest driver to win a WRC event until his countryman Jari-Matti Latvala won the 2008 Swedish Rally at the age of 22. Latvala stated that ""It's a super feeling, it's almost unbelievable. Henri (Toivonen) was one of my idols and secretly I've always wanted to beat his record as the youngest winner."" Over 20 years after the 1980 RAC, Paul White (nicknamed ""Chalkie"" by Toivonen) commented that he still receives questions about the rally and Henri Toivonen. He noted that the Talbot team, run by Des O'Dell and 15 full-time personnel, was much smaller than other works teams and"
"first national event. In 2013, Norris won in the World Karting Championships held in Bahrain, the WSK Euro Series and the CIK-FIA European and CIK-FIA Supercup titles. The following year he won the CIK-FIA KF World Championship, thereby making him the youngest karting world championship winner. In 2014, Norris made his debut in the Ginetta Junior Championship, a support series to the BTCC where he finished third overall, winning the Rookie Cup in his first year out of karts. For 2015, Norris signed with Carlin Motorsport to drive in the newly established MSA Formula series. Norris would win the series"
"a 4-7 record in 8th place. Eric Carlsén Eric Carlsén (born June 16, 1982) is a Swedish curler from Sundsvall, Sweden. Playing for Härnösand Curling Club, he was the Swedish national Champion for 2005 and represented Sweden as skip at the 2005 Ford World Men's Curling Championship in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. His team finished 9th. He is a two-time silver medalist in the World Junior Curling Championships, winning silver in 2002 and 2003. He had a fifth-place finish at the 2001 Juniors. In 2008 he won the Swedish Mixed Championships together with Niklas Edin, Anette Norberg and Anna Hasselborg."