World Champion
Magnus Carlsen
Norway
Carlsen is the reigning World Champion and arguably the strongest player who ever lived. In 2013, at the age of 22, he defeated Viswanathan Anand to become the second youngest undisputed World Champion in history (Garry Kasparov beat him by a few months), though he’d already been the man to beat for the previous three years. He followed that up by claiming both the World Rapid and Blitz Championships in June 2014 before defending the big title against Anand in November 2014, Sergey Karjakin in November 2016 and Fabiano Caruana in November 2018.
Date of Birth
November 30th, 1990
FIDE Title
Grandmaster
FIDE id
1503014
Peak Rating
2882
Rating
2855
Rank
#1