He finished ahead of a star-studded field that included GMs Kramnik, Michael Adams, Nakamura, Anand, Aronian, and Polgar. Carlsen’s performance rating in the blitz portion was 3018.

Earlier during the Shamkir event, his live rating hit 2889.2 on April 21, 2014. He instead amazed other people by completing activities that demonstrated his general intellectual aptitude at an early age. Carlsen started the blitz tournament’s second and final day tied with Vachier-Lagrave for the lead, but faltered and finished in a tie for sixth place. That marked his third successful world title defense.

NOTE: Please keep all discussion on-topic. GM Magnus Carlsen is the current world chess champion. It didn’t take long for Carlsen to rack up impressive performances and tournament wins. Carlsen was born in Tønsberg, Norway, on 30 November 1990, to Sigrun Øen, a chemical engineer, and Henrik Albert Carlsen, an IT consultant. Then at the 44th Biel Chess Festival, he scored 19/30 points to win comfortably ahead of GM Alexander Morozevich, who finished with 17/30. He achieved his highest official rating of 2882. In the Finals, Carlsen narrowly defeated Nakamura on day seven in the last game by holding a draw with Black in the armageddon game. Eleven of the 14 players were ranked in the world’s top 16 players, and all but two had a rating of at least 2700. Carlsen had another good year in 2012. And then, in game eight, Carlsen opted for 1. e4 for the first time, which caught Anand by surprise. In 2006, Carlsen tied for first at the Bosna Sarajevo tournament. The first game was a fighting draw with Carlsen on the black side of the Grunfeld Defense. Carlsen’s tournament performance was 2988. He also played with Lego sets intended for children 10 to 14 years old. After a tie for third place in January at Wijk aan Zee, Carlsen put together a handful of major tournament victories in 2011.

Carlsen had a string of impressive performances leading to the world championship events in November and December.

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Carlsen won the 2009 tournament with 8/10 points, finishing 2.5 points ahead of the top-rated player in the world at the time, GM Veselin Topalov. The first four games resulted in draws. Carlsen once again played in the Biel Grandmaster Tournament in 2007 after finishing in last place in 2005 and second place in 2006. Carlsen took the first decisive result in the match, and his momentum continued in the next game. A couple of months later, Carlsen beat GM Vassily Ivanchuk in blitz tiebreakers to take the Grand Slam Chess Final. After two draws, Anand missed a simple tactical idea that would have given him strong winning chances. With better piece activity and pawn structure, Carlsen kept the pressure on Anand, who had missed a key move in a rook-and-bishop endgame to keep the balance (45. However, he reclaimed his title in the World Blitz Chess Championship with a round to spare, topping second-place competitors Karjakin and Anand by 1.5 points.

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