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Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen  (born 30 November 1990) is a  Norwegian   chess   Grandmaster  and chess prodigy  who is currently the number-one ranked player in the world. In January 2010 he became the seventh player ranked  number one in the world  on the official  FIDE  rating list. His peak  rating  is 2826, the second highest peak rating in history after  Garry Kasparov . [1] On 26 April 2004 Carlsen became a Grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 148 days, making him the  third-youngest Grandmaster  in history. On 1 January 2010 the new  FIDE  rating list was published, and at the age of 19 years, 32 days he became the youngest chess player in history to be ranked world number one, breaking the record previously held by  Vladimir Kramnik . [2] Carlsen was also the 2009 World  blitz chess  champion. His performance at the September–October 2009  Nanjing   Pearl Spring tournament  has been described as one of the greatest in history [3]  and lifted him to an  Elo rating  of 2801, making hi

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