Magnus Carlsen
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Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, reigning six-time World Rapid Chess Champion, reigning nine-time World Blitz Chess Champion and t
Carlsen in 2025
Carlsen, aged 13, in Molde giving a simultaneous exhibition, July 2004
Carlsen vs. Ernst, 2004
Carlsen in Warsaw, 2005
World Chess Championship
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The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Gukesh Dommaraju, who defeated the previous champion Ding Liren in the 2024 World Chess C
Magnus Carlsen
…Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster. Carlsen is a five-time World Chess Champion, reigning six-time World Rapid Chess Champion, reigning nine-time World Blitz Chess Champion and the reigning FIDE Freestyle Chess World Champion…
Gukesh Dommaraju of India, the current world chess champion (2025)
A depiction of the chess match between Howard Staunton and Pierre Saint-Amant, on 16 December 1843
Alexandre Deschapelles, reputed to be the best player in the early nineteenth century
Louis de la Bourdonnais, the world's strongest player from 1821 to his death in 1840