Chess got itself an element of youth and cool in the last decade, as Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen became a grandmaster at the age of 13. In 2010, at the age of 19, he became the youngest person to be ranked number one in the FIDE world rankings. Carlsen was also the youngest to have an Elo rating of over 2,800 and holds the record for achieving the highest ever rating in history – 2,882 in 2014.
By then, Carlsen had already become the World Chess Champion, having defeated India’s Viswanathan Anand in the 2013 World Chess Championship at Chennai. He defended his title, again against Anand, in 2014 and also added the 2014 World Rapid Championship and World Blitz Championship, becoming the first to hold all three titles at the same time.
Since then, Carlsen has defended his classical world title in 2016 (against Sergy Karjakin) and 2018 (Fabiano Caruana) and has also repeated his 2014 feat of holding all three chess titles simultaneously by winning the Rapid and Blitz titles in 2019 again.
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