Magnus Carlsen

16th World Chess Champion · Modern era · Norway · b. 1990

The highest rating ever recorded, and ten years as champion before giving the title up.

Career In The Collection

3440Games
1404Wins
1435Draws
601Losses
62%Score
2002–2026Active
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Head-to-Head Records

Opponent Games Wins Draws Losses
Hikaru Nakamura 412 145 184 83 view games
Alireza Firouzja 295 147 74 74 view games
Wesley So 240 100 105 35 view games
Levon Aronian 238 83 115 40 view games
Fabiano Caruana 217 100 82 35 view games
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 209 78 87 44 view games
Ian Nepomniachtchi 173 67 81 25 view games
Viswanathan Anand 144 41 82 21 view games
Anish Giri 130 41 78 11 view games
Ding Liren 129 43 64 22 view games
Jan-Krzysztof Duda 118 55 41 22 view games
Alexander Grischuk 114 49 39 26 view games
Sergey Karjakin 95 33 47 15 view games
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 95 46 35 14 view games
Arjun Erigaisi 94 50 23 21 view games
Vassily Ivanchuk 76 25 33 18 view games
Vladimir Kramnik 72 27 32 13 view games
Peter Svidler 61 20 33 8 view games
Veselin Topalov 58 29 23 6 view games
Gukesh Dommaraju 57 40 6 11 view games
Vincent Keymer 51 32 18 1 view games
Boris Gelfand 45 19 21 5 view games
Nodirbek Abdusattorov 42 17 18 7 view games
Peter Leko 41 7 30 4 view games
Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa 40 15 16 9 view games
Alexander Morozevich 32 9 15 8 view games
Richard Rapport 28 16 8 4 view games
Alexei Shirov 26 15 9 2 view games
Gata Kamsky 26 11 8 7 view games
Michael Adams 19 11 7 1 view games
Wei Yi 18 7 9 2 view games
Judit Polgar 17 11 5 1 view games
Hou Yifan 8 7 1 0 view games
Anatoly Karpov 7 5 1 1 view games
Nigel Short 7 2 4 1 view games
Garry Kasparov 3 0 1 2 view games
Jan Timman 2 0 0 2 view games
Lajos Portisch 1 1 0 0 view games

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