Modest player maintains his focus
Saturday, December 12, 2009 3:24 AM

By SHELBY LYMAN

After raising his international rating to the highest in the world with performances in two elite tournaments, Magnus Carlsen, 19, added further aura to his status.

He pulverized the competition in the World Blitz tournament in Moscow and finished three points ahead of Viswanathan Anand.

Trailing in his wake were ex-world champions Vladimir Kramnik, Ruslan Ponomariov and Anatoly Karpov.

Carlsen’s feat recalled Bobby Fischer’s historic domination of the best players of his time in a 1970 blitz tournament in Yugoslavia. Fischer swept the tournament only half as long as the one in Moscow with a 17-4 score, 4.5 points ahead of the former world champion Mikhail Tal.

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