Norwegian Teen New Chess King

Norwegian Teen New Chess King – The new king of chess is 19-year-old Norwegian Magnus Carlsen, who plots 20 moves ahead in his matches.

The brightest talent in a generation according to his Russian coach and chess great Garry Kasparov, Norway’s Carlsen will officially become the world’s youngest ever top ranked player when new rankings come out at the start of 2010.

Dubbed the “Mozart of chess,” Carlsen plays with a healthy dose of natural intuition on top of deep analysis and pursues other interests that he believes help his game.

He brushes aside comparisons with the world’s troubled chess geniuses such as Bobby Fisher, a prodigy and champion who became engulfed by chess and detached from the rest of the world.

“Bobby Fischer was obviously one of the greatest chess players of all time — one of the inventors,” Carlsen told reporters.

“The difference between him and me, for example, is that he was obsessed with chess in a way that is not healthy and that’s a line I don’t intend to cross.”

“I try not to mix chess with life. When I don’t play I more or less do normal things for a teenager,” said Carlsen, who just graduated from high school.

Carlsen started playing chess as an 8-year-old mainly to beat his older sister, which he says took him “a few weeks.”

Within a year he regularly beat his father, who plays club-level chess in Norway, and at age 13 he had a surprise win in a speed chess competition against world champion Anatoly Karpov and a draw against Kasparov.

Carlsen believes his fluid style is well suited to speed or blitz chess, shorter versions of the game played with a clock giving each player only a few minutes to complete their moves, rather than deliberating at length over a single movement.

“Of course playing tournaments was probably my main source of training, because it was so much fun and I love competing,” Carlsen recalls of his early days.

Eager to improve, Carlsen hired Gary Kasparov last year to coach him during tournaments and for “intense” training sessions.

“Magnus possesses what we call a strong positional sense, an intuitive feel for where to put the pieces,” Kasparov told reporters, calling him a “once-in-a-generation talent.”

“Before this year he did not have to work particularly hard. To maintain his position as No. 1 he will have to accustom himself to a more rigorous workload,” said Kasparov.

If Carlsen develops great rivalries with opponents, he could become one of the “greatest ever” grandmasters, Kasparov adds.

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