Chess: Carlsen won in Romania

Norwegian chess ace Magnus Carlsen (19) has won the BaznaKing grand Slam chess tournament in Romania with 2 points, and is now ranked the world's chess player number one.

Carlsen now has 2826.1 ranking points, and is well underway to reach Gary Kasparov's record of 2851 points, says Dag Danielsen of the Norwegian Chess Association to NRK.

(NRK)

Saturday, 26 June 2010 07:04

Written by Rolleiv Solholm

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