![]() ![]() Oh, and he’s a fantasy soccer expert, coming an astounding tenth overall in the official English Premier League fantasy league for the 2019-20 season. He’s appeared as himself on The Simpsons, participated in a recent Norwegian version of the TV show Last One Laughing, and even tried his hand as a rapper. ![]() He’s modern chess’s one true rock star, beloved within the chess community, and a bona fide mainstream celebrity in his native Norway. ![]() He’s been world champion since 2013, is the highest-rated player of all time, and has held the world #1 spot for more than a decade continuously.Ĭhess is firmly in the Carlsen era. If there’s one chess player you should know, it’s Magnus Carlsen. Here’s everything you need to know! (Need a refresher on chess before we get started? Check out my guide from a bygone website.) The players So, what better time to jump on the chess train? The 2021 World Chess Championship starts this Friday: Magnus Carlsen will defend his crown against Ian Nepomniachtchi in a best-of-14-game match to be held in Dubai across the next two-and-a-half weeks. And the very nature of our beautiful game means that today’s elite players are able to give their fans a far more intimate, realistic, and rewarding insight to their artistry than stars in any other profession.Īnd that was all before the twin forces of popular and cellular culture combined to take chess from existing in the popular imagination merely as a byword for intellectualism and thrust it as a concrete endeavor right to the forefront of global and personal entertainment. We have access to more and better learning resources available free online than the proprietary learning that the best private chess schools could ever offer to their students in the past. We can follow more and higher-quality tournaments than ever before in history. It’s a phenomenal time to be a chess fan. ![]()
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