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The chess world’s new number one 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen plots 20 moves ahead and can remember matches he played six years ago move-for-move, but insists he is still pretty much your average teenager. …

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Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information: The Norwegian King

The chess world’s new number one 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen plots 20 moves ahead and can remember matches he played six years ago move-for-move, but insists he is still pretty much your average teenager.

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Norwegian teenager to be crowned new chess king (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

1, 19-year-old Magnus Carlsen of Norway will officially become the youngest person in history to earn chess’s No. 1 ranking. TIME caught up with the grandmaster at a tournament in London to probe the mind of a chess genius

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Susan Polgar Chess Daily News and Information: Time Q&A with …