Magnus Carlsen

Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster, and the current World Chess Champion. Carlsen was a child chess prodigy who became a chess grandmaster in 2004, at the age of 13 years and 148 days, making him the third-youngest grandmaster in history. In November 2013,  Carlsen became World Champion by defeating Viswanathan Anand. He defended his title in November 2016 when he defeated Sergey Karjakin. After defeating Caruana in their 2018 World Championship Match, Carlsen ended the year by winning the World Blitz Championship, his 10th World Championship title in total. Last month he took home the $70K prize for winning the inaugural Magnus Carlsen Invitational online tournament, the first stop that is part of the new Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour which will continue with three more online tournaments through August.