Magnificent Magnus!

Sixteen year-old Magnus Carson of Norway recently finished the Morelia/Linares Super GM Tournament held in Mexico and Spain in second place trailing only Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand. In the course of this tournament, Carlsen defeated Alexander Morozevich in a riviting game in which he queened two pawns and threatened to queen another before forcing his opponent to resign. This game is worthy of the deepest study and, at the same time, it is really fun just to play through. We bring you the game with annotations by GM Mihail Marin courtesy of ChessBase.com as well as some biographical information on the Wonderboy from Norway.

GM Magnus Carlsen

This from Wikopedia:

Magnus ˆòen Carlsen (born November 30, 1990) is a Norwegian chess Grandmaster who came to international attention after winning the C group of the Corus Chess Tournament in January 2004 at the age of thirteen, and winning the B group of the same tournament two years later at 15.
In the January 2007 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2690, making him Norway's number 1, World Juniors' number 2 (behind Teimour Radjabov) and World's number 24. On April 26, 2004 Carlsen became Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days, at the time the youngest in the world. He is now the third youngest Grandmaster in the world ever, surpassed only by Sergey Karjakin and Parimarjan Negi.

In the prestigious Linares chess tournament Carlsen met the following top-rated players: Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Levon Aronian, Peter Leko, and Vassily Ivanchuk (replacing Teimour Radjabov). With the significantly lowest ELO rating, he achieved a 2nd place (on tiebreaks) with 7.5 points after 4 wins, 7 draws and 3 losses, and an ELO performance of 2778.


GM Carlsen plays the white pieces vs GM Morozevich at the 2007 Morelia/Linares Super GM Tournament in Spain

Carlsen,M (2690) - Morozevich,A (2741) [E66]
XXIV SuperGM Morelia/Linares MEX/ESP, 02.17.2007

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