On Friday, 22-year-old Norwegian-Magnus Carlsen showed his outstanding performance against five-time world chess champion Viswanathan Anand .
Magnus Carlsen was heralded to be new king of chess by becoming the 16th World champion in classical format. He showed his fabulous performance of his stunningly successful career of chess' new era in Tamil Nadu where the home favourite champion- Viswanathan Anand was born; and in a country where the game of 64 squares has its origins.
The Norwegian genius upseated home favourite and defending champion Viswanathan Anand 6.5-3.5 to win their best-of-12 world chess title clash. Carlsen bagged the youngest world No. 1 title at 19.He also holds the record of being the strongest rated player in chess history with a published rating of 2872, on February 1 this year.
"Magnus was travelling almost 200 days a year in his early days. He has played a lot. His father says Magnus had spent 10,000 hours on chess before he was 15. That says something," said his former coach Simen Agdestein.
It was Carlsen’s great victory with to games to spare and it was also the end of Anand’s six-year reign as the World champion. It was Anand’s first loss in a world title match since 2007. The triumph was worth Rs. 8.4 crore for Carlsen. Anand settled for Rs. 5.6 crore.
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