GM Magnus Carlsen has now been the world chess number-one on every FIDE rating list for the past 15 years, since July 2011. Although Carlsen has suffered scares—for instance, any loss to GM Fabiano Caruana in the 2018 World Championship matc…
A Magnus Carlsen game from 2010 and his famous queen sacrifice from the 2016 World Championship match helped shape the central chess battle in The Nation’s Gambit, a new Norwegian political thriller, in which every captured piece costs a human lif…