Beating the giants
CHESS
By QUAH SENG SUN
Norwegian teen makes ripples in chess world.
SINCE the end of last month, I’ve been spending some time marvelling at the progress of a young man whom I consider to be one of the most exciting chess players to have emerged in recent years.
As an eight-year-old kid, he started learning chess and by his 11th birthday, had attained an international rating of 2,072. For a player that was brought up on chess in the West, that was nothing much but since that modest start, that young chap’s chess prowess had shot through the roof.
At the age of 13 years four months and 27 days, he became the third youngest grandmaster in chess history. He touched the 2,600 rating level in the January 2006 Fide rating list, then topped the 2,700 rating mark in the July 2007 rating list.
Today, according to the Live Rating list, he has breached the rarified 2,800 rating level, one of only two chess players to do so. Only 18 years old, and he’s currently the No.2 player in the world.
I’m talking about Magnus Carlsen. The whole world is talking about Magnus Carlsen. A phenomenal chess player from Norway with a phenomenal memory and chess talent.
Here is the full article.
four players have broken 2800: Kasparov, Kramnik, Topalov, and Anand. nice journalism.
Who wrote this article ? The same person who wrote about 16 year old GM sister?
This really isn’t a quality chess piece. Indeed, it seems to be written by a teenager for his highschool newspaper.
“… one of only two chess players to do so.”
Common!
Well, perhaps you all should read the sentence again because technically it is right – only Topalov and Carlsen have broken 2800 on the LIVE LIST. No other player reached 2800 on the LIVE LIST and that is exactly what it says.
‘Indeed, it seems to be written by a teenager for his highschool newspaper.’
Yes, you are truly right!
It was not a too bad article ..
and the sentence about 2800 .. can be understood both ways ..
and .. are all journalists that write about football, music, philosophy, science, politics; total professors in these subjects ??
Give him credit for daring to write about chess, do not scare the journalists away !
(and for those thinking that my language is a little bit naive and highschool or worse, give me credit for writing in a foreign language 🙂 )
Carlsen’s phenomenal success is not to be diminished by mediocre journalism. He is part of the new super elite (Topalov, Carlsen, Anand, Aronian and Kramnik).