Top-ranked chess player Magnus Carlsen is widely regarded as the best chess player of all time. Carlsen has held the number-one position in the FIDE world chess rankings since July of 2011. Boasting a peak rating of 2882, Carlsen’s is the highest in history, and his time as the highest-rated player in the world is second only to the renowned grandmaster and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. For the latest generation of chess enthusiasts, Magnus Carlsen personifies perfection in the game; he is the face and the poster child for the modern game. He is, in the current renaissance of this centuries-old game, the Bobby Fischer of his time, bringing attention and publicity to a game otherwise overlooked and under-appreciated, especially among the youth. What was once a scholar’s and older man’s game with the rare adolescent chess prodigy has, since the 2020 release of the TV series The Queen’s Gambit , evolved into an internet sensation through a sharp rise in onl...