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Fact-checking President Trump’s address to Congress
By Glenn Kessler and Michelle Ye Hee Lee
February 28 at 11:35 PM
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Here are key moments from the president’s address to a joint session of Congress, Feb. 28. (Video: Sarah Parnass/Photo: Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
An address to Congress is such an important speech that presidents generally are careful not to stretch the truth. The “16 words” in George W. Bush’s 2003 State of the Union address that falsely claimed Iraq’s Saddam Hussein sought uranium from Africa led to significant turmoil in the administration, including the criminal conviction of a top aide.

President Trump’s maiden address to Congress was notable because it was filled with numerous inaccuracies. In fact, many of the president’s false claims are old favorites that he trots out on a regular, almost daily basis. Here’s a roundup of 13 of the more notable claims, in the order in which the president made them.

“We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five-year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials — and a lifetime ban on becoming lobbyists for a foreign government.”

Trump did sign an order that he said would result in a lifetime ban on administration officials lobbying for foreign governments. But his five-year ban on lobbying is less than advertised. Trump has originally promised to extend the ban to congressional officials, but he did not. Moreover, the five-year ban applies only to lobbying one’s former agency — not becoming a lobbyist. Trump actually weakened some of the language from similar bans under Obama and George W. Bush, and reduced the level of transparency.

“We’ve defended the borders of other nations, while leaving our own borders wide open, for anyone to cross — and for drugs to pour in at a now unprecedented rate.”

The data are mixed on the amount of drugs coming through the borders. The amount of marijuana seized at the border continues to decline — probably a reflection of drug use in the United States, as more states legalize marijuana for medical or recreational use. In fiscal 2016, 1.3 million pounds of marijuana were seized, down from 1.5 million the year before, and lower than the peak of nearly 4 million pounds in 2009, according to Customs and Border Patrol data. The amount of cocaine seized at the borders overall in fiscal 2016 (5,473 pounds) was roughly half the amount seized the previous year (11,220 pounds).

But the amount of heroin and methamphetamine seized has increased in recent years. In fiscal year 2016, Border Patrol seized 9,062 pounds of heroin (compared to 8,282 in fiscal 2015) and 8,224 pounds of methamphetamine (compared to 6,443 pounds in fiscal 2015).


Meanwhile, illegal immigration flows across the Southern border in fiscal 2015 were at the lowest levels since 1972, except for in 2011. The apprehensions in fiscal 2016 (408,870) exceeded fiscal 2015 (331,333), but still indicate an overall decline since their peak in 2000 (1.6 million).

“Since my election, Ford, Fiat-Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart, and many others, have announced that they will invest billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs.”

Trump again takes credit for business decisions made before his election.

Ford’s decision to abandon its plans to open a factory in Mexico and instead expand its Michigan plant has more to do with the company’s long-term goal — particularly its plans to invest in electric vehicles — than with the administration. Ford chief executive Mark Fields said about the company’s decision to abandon plans to open a factory in Mexico: “The reason that we are not building the new plant, the primary reason, is just demand has gone down for small cars.”


Sergio Marchionne, the Fiat Chrysler chief executive, said his company’s plan to invest $1 billion for a factory in Michigan had been in the works for more than a year and had nothing to do with Trump. Marchionne credited instead talks with the United Auto Workers.

Japanese company SoftBank announced its $100 billion technology investment fund three weeks before the U.S. elections, when Trump faced a narrow path to victory. After a December 2016 meeting with then-President-Elect Trump, SoftBank announced $50 billion would go to the United States. But the United States outpaces all other countries in venture capital investments, and it is questionable that none of the $100 billion would have gone to the vibrant and promising tech industry in America — regardless of whether Trump was elected.

“We’ve saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by bringing down the price of the fantastic new F-35 jet fighter, and will be saving billions more dollars on contracts all across our government.”

Trump once again takes credit for the lowered cost of the F-35 program. The Pentagon had announced cost reductions of roughly $600 million before Trump began meeting with Lockheed Martin’s chief executive. Sometimes Trump says he saved $600 million, other times $700 million.

We previously awarded Four Pinocchios to this claim.

“We have cleared the way for the construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines — thereby creating tens of thousands of jobs — and I’ve issued a new directive that new American pipelines be made with American steel.”

Trump appears to be combining two disputed figures — 28,000 jobs for Keystone XL and 12,000 for the Dakota Access pipeline. We have looked closely at the Keystone numbers, and the same methodological issues appear to apply to the Dakota estimates. The actual number of Keystone construction jobs, for instance, is 3,900 on an annualized basis — and other jobs have already been created (such as for building high-strength line pipe.) In the context of the U.S. economy, which just in January added 230,000 jobs, these are not many jobs.

As for the steel, workers in Arkansas have already built about half of the high-strength line pipe needed for the project, some 333,000 tons. TransCanada said in 2013 that it had already purchased all of the steel pipe it needed for the Keystone XL, with the rest coming from a Russian-owned plant in Canada, Italy and India. Experts say the plant in Arkansas (owned by an Indian company) is the only one in the U.S. that could build the pipe — and it gets its steel from India.

“As we speak, we are removing gang members, drug dealers and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our citizens. Bad ones are going out as I speak and as I have promised throughout the campaign.”

Trump is referring to the recent arrests of undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes, or the “bad ones.” Trump takes credit for fulfilling his campaign promise of cracking down on illegal immigration, but these arrests are routine. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has always targeted dangerous criminals in enforcement priorities. The recent arrests, however, did include people who would not have fallen under narrowed enforcement priorities under Obama.

Still, 25 percent of the arrests that grabbed headlines in early February were of people who had lesser charges and noncriminal convictions. According to anecdotes of recent arrests, undocumented people with traffic violations were subject to arrest. They are not the “bad ones,” such as drug dealers or gang members, that he describes.

“By finally enforcing our immigration laws we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars and make our communities safer for everyone.”

Trump exaggerates the impact of illegal immigration on crime, taxpayer money and jobs.

Extensive research shows noncitizens are not more prone to criminality than U.S.-born citizens. The vast majority of unauthorized immigrants are not criminal aliens or aggravated felons.


Trump appears to reference the cost of illegal immigration from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which supports lower levels of legal and illegal immigration. According to the group, the annual cost of illegal immigration at the federal, state and local level were about $113 billion as of 2013.

But this calculation makes assumptions that are not necessarily tied to illegal immigration, like enrollment in English proficiency classes. The enrollment number doesn’t tell you anything about the actual citizenship status of students (i.e., they could be native-born children of undocumented immigrants, raised in a non-English-speaking home).

In general, economists have found that immigration overall results in a net positive to the U.S. economy. There are slight negative effects, but they are felt most strongly by less-educated and low-skilled workers. Illegal immigration, in particular, tends to affect less-educated and low-skilled American workers the most, which disproportionately comprises black men and recently arrived less-educated legal immigrants.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights 2010 report found that illegal immigration has tended to depress wages and employment particularly for black men. But factors other than illegal immigration contribute to black unemployment, the report found, including the high school dropout rate and low job-retention rates.

“Millions lifted from welfare to work is not too much to expect.”

“Welfare” is a broad term and can apply to people who are working but receiving some government assistance. If someone is receiving means-tested assistance, it doesn’t necessarily mean they are not working.

Not all people eligible for welfare collect benefits. When they do, many of the benefits are contingent on the recipients working or actively searching for jobs, as a result of an overhaul of welfare signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1996. And even low-income families receive some level of public assistance.


Trump is apparently unaware that participation has declined in means-tested programs such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps).

“Ninety-four million Americans are out of the labor force.”

This is an absurd Four-Pinocchio claim, based on a real number. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, relying on a monthly survey known as the Current Population Survey (CPS), shows that, as of January 2016, 94.4 million Americans 16 years and older were “not in labor force.”

How is this number developed? Well, there is a civilian noninstitutional population of 254.1 million people, and 159.7 million are in the labor force. The difference yields the 94.4 million figure.

But the unemployment rate is only 4.8 percent because just 7.6 million people actively are looking for a job and cannot find one. They are considered part of the overall labor force. In other words, you have to be seeking a job to be counted in the labor force.

Who are the 94 million not in the labor force? The BLS has data for the year 2015. It turns out that 93 percent do not want a job at all. The picture that emerges from a study of the data shows that the 95 million consists mostly of people who are retired, students, stay-at-home parents or disabled.

Trump is doing a real disservice in citing this 94 million figure and suggesting it means these people are looking for work.

“America has spent approximately $6 trillion in the Middle East, all this while our infrastructure at home is crumbling. With this $6 trillion we could have rebuilt our country — twice.”

Trump often incorrectly claims that the United States spent $6 trillion on the wars in the Middle East, and here he uses it in a particularly misleading way. The wars in Iraq (in the Middle East) and Afghanistan (in South Asia) together cost about $1.6 trillion from 2001 to 2014.

The $6 trillion-figure adds in estimates of future spending, such as interest on the debt and veterans care for the next three decades. Yet Trump says that this money (not yet spent) could have rebuilt the U.S. economy.

Former president Barack Obama often pleaded with the GOP-led Congress to pass a major infrastructure bill but never received much support. We will see if Trump has any more success.

“The murder rate in 2015 experienced its largest single-year increase in nearly half a century. In Chicago, more than 4,000 people were shot last year alone — and the murder rate so far this year has been even higher. This is not acceptable in our society.”

In 2015, there was the biggest percentage jump in a single year since 1970-1971, or 45 years ago. In 2016, there was an uptick in the homicide rate in the 30 largest cities. One outlier — Chicago — was responsible for 43.7 percent of the total increase in homicide rates in 2016. But overall, violent crime is on a decades-long decline, since the height of the crack cocaine epidemic in the early 1990s.

Crime trends can randomly fluctuate year to year. Many factors affect such rates, including the weather. This is why criminologists do not make generalizations about crime trends based on short-term comparisons of rates, such as annual or monthly changes. They consider the data over much longer periods of time — at least 10 to 15 years — to make conclusions about trends.

For example, in 2006 and 2007, the national violent crime trend increased for the first time in nine years. Democrats bemoaned the return of the crime wave, creating a political headache for George W. Bush’s administration.

“After years of driving crime rates down, we’re now in reverse gear,” said then-Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.). “It’s time to get back to crime-fighting basics — that means more cops on the streets, equipped with the tools and resources they need to keep our neighborhoods safe.”

Then-Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales denied that the crime trend was reversing: “In general, it doesn’t appear that the current data reveal nationwide trends. Rather, they show local increases in certain communities. Each community is facing different circumstances, and in many places violent crime continues to decrease.”

“Jamiel’s 17-year-old son was viciously murdered by an illegal immigrant gang member, who had just been released from prison. Jamiel Shaw Jr. was an incredible young man, with unlimited potential who was getting ready to go to college where he would have excelled as a great quarterback. But he never got the chance. His father, who is in the audience tonight, has become a good friend of mine.”

Trump likes to use anecdotes as evidence for associating violent crimes with illegal immigration, telling stories of victims of homicide by undocumented immigrants. He brought family members of those killed by illegal immigrants as his guest to tonight’s speech. He often talks about the death of Jamiel Shaw Jr., a 17-year-old football star who was killed in 2008 by a gang member who was in the country illegally.

Clearly, stories like this exist. But the vast majority of unauthorized immigrants do not fit Trump’s description of aggravated felons, whose crimes include murder. U.S. Sentencing Commission data show homicides are a small percentage of the crimes committed by noncitizens, whether they are in the United States illegally or not.

The Congressional Research Service found that the vast majority of unauthorized immigrants do not fit in the category of aggravated felons, whose crimes include murder, drug trafficking or illegal trafficking of firearms.


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“I can tell you the money is pouring in. Very nice.”

Trump ad-libbed this line after mentioning that he was pressing NATO allies in “very frank and strong discussions,” to meet their financial obligations to the alliance. But the comment is a bit nonsensical.

NATO’s guideline, established in 2006, that defense expenditures should amount to 2 percent of each country’s gross domestic product. In 2016, only four countries besides the United States met that standard, but NATO documents also show that defense spending has increased about three percent from 2015 to 2016. In any case, the money would not be going to the United States or even necessarily to NATO; this is money that countries would spend to bolster their own military.

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Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States.

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DONALD TRUMP
Thank you very much.

PAUL RYAN
Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and the distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.

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DONALD TRUMP
Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, members of Congress, the first lady of the United States.

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And citizens of America, tonight, as we mark the conclusion of our celebration of black history month, we are reminded of our nation’s path toward civil rights and the work that still remains to be done. Recent threats —

President Trump began his speech with a nod to the civil rights movement and Black History Month, using markedly different rhetoric from his campaign. In the months leading up to the election, Trump began asking the rhetorical question to black voters — in front of overwhelmingly white audiences — “What the hell do you have to lose?” He painted a picture of black neighborhoods as wracked with poverty, crime and schools that are “no good,” as he put it. Trump’s words were roundly criticized by many African-American leaders as insensitive and an unfair portrayal of their communities. Despite that criticism, Trump outperformed 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney among black voters. In his speech to Congress, the president struck a gentler, more conciliatory tone.


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Recent threats targeting Jewish community centers and vandalism of Jewish cemeteries, as well as last week’s shooting in Kansas City, remind us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all of its very ugly forms.

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This week, the Anti-Defamation League issued a nationwide security advisory after it tallied around 90 bomb threats to Jewish institutions since the start of the year. The shooting President Trump mentions occurred in Olathe, Kan.


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Each American generation passes the torch of truth, liberty, and justice in an unbroken chain all the way down to the president. That torch is now in our hands, and we will use it to light up the world. I am here tonight to deliver a message of unity and strength, and it is a message deeply delivered from my heart. A new chapter —

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— of American greatness is now beginning. A new national pride is sweeping across our nation, and a new surge of optimism is placing impossible dreams firmly within our grasp. What we are witnessing today is the renewal of the American spirit. Our allies will find once that America is once again ready to lead.

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The inner cities of Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, and so many other places throughout our land. We’ve defended the borders of other nations while leaving our own borders wide open for anyone to cross and for drugs to pour in at a now unprecedented rate.

And we’ve spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while our infrastructure at home has so badly crumbled. Then in 2016, the Earth shifted beneath our feet. The rebellion started as a quiet protest, spoken by families of all colors and creeds, families who just wanted a fair shot for their children and a fair hearing for their concerns. But then, the quiet voices became a loud chorus, as thousands of citizens now spoke out together from cities small and large all across our country. Finally, the chorus became an earthquake, and the people turned out, by the tens of millions, and they were all united by one very simple but crucial demand – that America must put its own citizens first. Because only then, can we truly make America great again.

The American Society of Civil Engineers’ latest report card (in 2013) on the overall condition of the nation’s infrastructure gave the country a D+. America’s airports, roads, transit, schools, dams and drinking water and wastewater systems all got grades of D; levees, a D-. Among the few bright spots were railroads and bridges at C+. And federal investment in upgrading and repairing infrastructure has remained flat in recent years, while the highway trust fund is losing money when adjusted for inflationary costs. The group’s next report card on the state of our infrastructure is due out March 9.

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Trump’s comment about “trillions of dollars” alludes to estimates that the total costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which included significant spending on reconstruction as well as the direct costs involved with troops and combat, could add up to $4 trillion or more. Such estimates also factor in the costs involved with taking care of veterans after their deployments, which continue for decades after major combat, and the costs associated with servicing the debt used to finance the wars.

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This is a reference to his election. He may not be saying here that he got 306 electoral votes, as he has recently, but it was intended as a reminder to Democrats that he won. Trump got just shy of 63 million votes, but everyone who turned out to the polls certainly wasn’t “united.” Trump finished almost 3 million votes short of his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. He has blamed that on immigrants in the country illegally voting illegally — as many as 3 million to 5 million, Trump claims. There is zero evidence of that. The Ohio secretary of state, a Republican, found that 82 noncitizens voted in at least one Ohio election and that 385 were registered to vote in 2015.


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Dying industries will come roaring back to life, heroic veterans will get the care they so desperately need. Our military will be given the resources its brave warriors so richly deserve. Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways, gleaming across our very very beautiful land. Our terrible drug epidemic will slow down and ultimately stop, and our neglected inner cities will see a rebirth of hope, safety, and opportunity. Above all else, we will keep our promises to the American people.

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Thank you. It’s been a little over a month since my inauguration, and I want to take this moment to update the nation on the progress I have made in keeping those promises. Since my election, Ford, Fiat, Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Wal Mart, and many others have announced they will invest billions and billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs.

The president has publicly urged many CEOs to keep production and jobs in the United States. However, most of the companies who have announced plans to create jobs and add to factories had planned to do so before Trump was elected. One notable exception was the announcement by Ford that it is canceling plans to build a factory in Mexico and will instead spend $700 million to add on to a plant in Michigan.


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The stock market has gained almost $3 trillion in value since the election on November 8, a record. We’ve saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by bringing down the price of fantastic — and it is a fantastic – new, F-35 jet fighter, and we will be saving billions more on contracts all across our government. We have placed a hiring freeze on non-military and non-essential federal workers. We have begun to drain the swamp of government corruption by imposing a five-year ban on lobbying by executive branch officials, and a lifetime ban —

Trump’s new endorsement of the F-35 will very likely come as a huge relief to the Pentagon, jet builder Lockheed Martin and the vast array of constituents around the globe of the world’s costliest weapons program. He scolded Lockheed for what he called the unreasonable cost to buy the advanced new warplanes, estimated at around $400 billion, and threatened to buy more copies of an older-model jet built by Boeing instead. Defense analysts, however, have pointed out that the price per copy for the F-35 was already falling before he took office.

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Thank you. — and a lifetime ban on becoming lobbyists for a foreign government. We have undertaken a historic effort to massively reduce job crushing regulations, creating a deregulation task force inside of every government agency.

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And we are imposing a new rule which mandates that for every one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated.

We’ve yet to see any regulations rolled back through this initiative. But Congress has overturned two regulations through use of the Congressional Review Act, and earlier Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order calling for a review of another, The Waters Of The United States Act, which has been put on hold by a federal appeals court.


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We are going to stop the regulations that threaten the future and livelihood of our great coal miners.

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We have cleared the way for the construction of the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines.

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Thereby creating tens of thousands of jobs, and I’ve issued a new directive that new American pipelines be made with American steel.

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We have withdrawn the United States from the job killing Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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And with the help of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we have formed a counsel with our neighbors in Canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to the networks, markets and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams.

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To protect our citizens, I have directed the Department of Justice to form a task force on reducing violent crime. I have further ordered the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice, along with the Department of State and the Director of National Intelligence, to coordinate an aggressive strategy to dismantle the criminal cartels that have spread all across our nation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a “crime reduction and public safety task force” that includes the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the U.S. Marshals earlier Tuesday to confront what he called a “crisis.” While murders are up across several major cities, violent crime remains near record lows, according to most criminologists.


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During the campaign, Trump promised to stop the flow of heroin from Mexico and help families struggling with the epidemic. At the same time, he also vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. That could set up a potential tension between competing goals, given that many people addicted to opioids rely on the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare to receive treatment and overall health care. What’s more, many of the states hardest hit by the epidemic, like West Virginia, voted for Trump, and many residents are looking to the administration to improve their economic circumstances.


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At the same time, my administration has answered the pleas of the American people for immigration enforcement and border security.

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By finally enforcing our immigration laws, we will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions and billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone.

President Trump has signed several executive orders on immigration and border security. But they were framed as matters of national security, not helping the unemployed. Many economists believe immigration is an overall plus for the economy, although it may hold down wages for workers without high school diplomas.

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We want all Americans to succeed, but that can’t happen in an environment of lawless chaos. We must restore integrity and the rule of law at our borders.

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For that reason, we will soon begin the construction of a great, great wall along our southern border.

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As we speak tonight, we are removing gang members, drug dealers, and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our very innocent citizens. Bad ones are going out, as I speak, and as I promised throughout the campaign. To any in Congress who do not believe we should enforce our laws, I would ask you this one question: What would you say to the American family that loses their jobs, their income, or their loved one because America refused to uphold its laws and defend its borders?

Trump’s executive orders, and the implementation memos released a few weeks later by the Department of Homeland Security, greatly expand which immigrants are a priority for deportation. Critics say the new policies make anyone in the country illegally a possible target, not just those who have committed a serious crime as the White House contends.

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Our obligation is to serve, protect, and defend the citizens of the United States. We are also taking strong measures to protect our nation from radical Islamic terrorism.

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According to data provided by the Department of Justice, the vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offense since 9/11 came here from outside of our country. We have seen the attacks at home, from Boston to San Bernardino, to the Pentagon, and yes, even the World Trade Center. We have seen the attacks in France, in Belgium, in Germany, and all over the world. It is not compassion but reckless to allow uncontrolled entry from places where proper vetting cannot occur.

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That is why my administration has been working on improved vetting procedures, and we will shortly take new steps to keep our nation safe and to keep those out who will do us harm.

Federal judges have put on hold President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning travelers from seven majority-Muslim countries, citing concerns it may violate due process rights of visitors and green card holders and could discriminate on the basis of religion. The White House is expected to unveil a new executive order, tailored to respond to the court rulings, as early as Wednesday. The ACLU and other civil rights groups say it’s not clear whether a new order will fix all of the constitutional problems they see with the plan.


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As promised, I directed the Department of Defense to develop a plan to demolish and destroy ISIS, a network of lawless savages that have slaughtered Muslims and Christians and men and women and children of all faiths and all beliefs. We will work with our allies, including our friends and allies in the Muslim world, to extinguish this vile enemy from our planet.

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I have also imposed new sanctions on entities and individuals who support Iran’s ballistic missile program, and reaffirmed our unbreakable alliance with the state of Israel.

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I am greatly honored to have Maureen Scalia with us in the gallery tonight.

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DONALD TRUMP
Tonight, as I outlined the next steps we must take as a country, we must honestly acknowledge the circumstances we inherited. 94 million Americans are out of the labor force. Over 43 million people are now living in poverty, and over 43 million Americans are on food stamps.

More than one in five people in their prime working years are not working. We have the worst financial recovery and 65 years. In the last eight years, the past administration has put on more new debt than nearly all of the other presidents combined.

We have lost more than one fourth of our manufacturing jobs since NAFTA was approved, and we have lost 60,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001.

Our trade deficit in the goods with the world last year was nearly $800 billion, and overseas, we have inherited a serious tragic foreign policy disasters. Solving these and so many other pressing problems require us to work asked the differences of party. It will require us to tap into the American spirit that has overcome every challenge throughout our long and storied history. But to accomplish our goals at home and abroad, we must restart the engine of the American economy, making it easy to do business in the United States, and much much harder for companies to leave our country.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
Right now, American companies are taxed at one of the highest rates anywhere in the world. My economic team is developing historic tax reform that will reduce the tax rate on our companies so they can compete and thrive anywhere and with anyone.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
It will be a big, big cut. At the same time we will provide massive tax relief for the middle class. We must create a level playing field for American companies and our workers. Have to do it.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
Currently when we ship products out of America, many other countries make us pay very high tariffs and taxes. But when foreign companies ship their products into America, we charge them nothing or almost nothing. I just met with officials and workers from a great American company, Harley Davidson. In fact, they proudly displayed five of their magnificent motorcycles, made in the U.S.A., on the front lawn of the White House.

([LAUGHTER])

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
And they wanted me to ride one, and I said, no thank you.

([LAUGHTER])

DONALD TRUMP
At our meeting, I asked them, how are you doing, how is business? They said it is good. I asked them further, how they are doing with other countries, mainly with international sales. They told me, without complaining, because they have been so mistreated for so long that they have become used to it, that it is very hard to do business with other countries because they tax our goods at such a high rate. They said that in the case of another country, they tax their motorcycles at 100%. They weren’t even asking for a change but I am. I believe —

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
I believe strongly in free trade, but it also has to be fair trade. It has been a long time since we had fair trade. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, warned that the “abandonment of the protective policy by the American government will produce want and ruin among our people." Lincoln was right, and it is time we heeded his advice and his words.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
I am not going to let America and its great companies and workers be taken advantage of anymore. They have taken advantage of our country. No longer.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
I am going to bring back millions of jobs. Protecting our workers also means reforming our system of legal immigration.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
The current, outdated system depresses wages for our poorest workers and puts great pressure on taxpayers. Nations around the world, like Canada, Australia, and many others have a merit-based, immigration system.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
It is a basic principle that those seeking to enter a country ought to be able to support themselves financially. Yet, in America, we do not enforce this rule, straining the very public resources that our poorest citizens rely upon.

According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs American taxpayers many billions of dollars a year. Switching away from this current system of lower-skilled immigration, and instead adopting a merit-based system, we will have so many more benefits. It will save countless dollars, raise workers’ wages, and help struggling families, including immigrant families, enter the middle class. And they will do it quickly and they will be very, very happy indeed.

Trump appears to be referring to this study published last year by the National Academy of Sciences. It found that “the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers overall is very small.” The study also found that first-generation immigrants are more costly to state and local governments. But the children of immigrants, on the other hand, are among the “strongest economic and fiscal contributors in the U.S. population, contributing more in taxes than either their parents or the rest of the native-born population.”

Joel Rose
NPR Correspondent/Covers Immigration
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(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
I believe that real and positive immigration reform is possible, as long as we focus on the following goals: To improve jobs and wages for Americans, to strengthen our nation’s security, and to restore respect for our laws. If we are guided by the well-being of American citizens, then I believe Republicans and Democrats can work together to achieve an outcome that has eluded our country for decades.

This is a sharp turn from Trump’s rhetoric on immigration in the first weeks of his presidency.

He has floated the idea of reform before. But as president, he has focused on tougher enforcement of existing immigration laws, cracking down on sanctuary cities, and building a wall on the border with Mexico. Trump even invited several family members of people who were killed by immigrants in the country illegally to attend Tuesday’s speech.

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NPR Correspondent/Covers Immigration
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DONALD TRUMP
Another Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, initiated the last truly great national infrastructure program, the building of the interstate highway system. The time has come for a new program of national rebuilding.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
America has spent approximately $6 trillion in the Middle East. All the while our infrastructure at home has crumbled. With this $6 trillion, we could have rebuilt our country twice, and maybe even three times, if we had people who had the ability to negotiate.

The American Society of Civil Engineers estimated in 2013 that the nation would need to spend $3.6 trillion by 2020 to put our airports, roads, bridges, dams, levees, wastewater, drinking water and other infrastructure into a state of good repair. That cost estimate has almost certainly increased since then.

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DONALD TRUMP
To launch our national rebuilding, I will be asking the Congress to approve legislation that produces a $1 trillion investment in infrastructure of the United States financed through both, public and private capital, creating millions of new jobs.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
This effort will be guided by two core principles: Buy American and hire American.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
Tonight I am also calling on this Congress to repeal and replace Obamacare —

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
— with reforms that expand choice, increase access, lower costs, and at the same time, provide better healthcare.

Republicans in Congress took the first steps to repeal Obamacare in January. However, they’ve had trouble coming up with a replacement plan they can agree on. House Speaker Paul Ryan released an outline of the working Republican plan last week, but almost immediately some House Republicans said they would oppose the plan. And an analysis of the plan by McKinsey and Avalere Health and presented to the National Governors Association last week showed that it could lead to millions of people losing their health care coverage.


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NPR Health Policy Correspondent
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(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
Mandating every American to buy government-approved health insurance was never the right solution for our country.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
The way to make health insurance available to everyone is to lower the cost of health insurance, and that is what we are going to do.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
Obamacare premiums nationwide have increased by double and triple digits. As an example, Arizona went up 116% last year alone. Governor Matt Bevin of Kentucky just said Obamacare is failing in his state. The state of Kentucky, and it is unsustainable and collapsing.

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One third of counties have only one insurer, and they are losing them fast. They are losing them so fast, they are leaving, and many Americans have no choice at all. There is no choice left. Remember, when you were told that you could keep your doctor and keep your plan? We now know that all of those promises have been totally broken. Obamacare is collapsing, and we must act decisively to protect all Americans.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
Action is not a choice. It is a necessity. So I am calling on all Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work with us to save Americans from this imploding Obamacare disaster.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
Here are the principles that should guide Congress as we move to create a better healthcare system for all Americans. First, we should ensure that Americans with pre-existing conditions have access to coverage, and that we have a stable transition for Americans currently enrolled in the health care exchanges.

The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to offer insurance to people with existing medical conditions at the same price as to others in the same area and the same age. President Trump and congressional Republicans have said they want to ensure those same protections are in their replacement plan. House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan as of now would bar insurers from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions as long as they kept their insurance without interruption. However, if they let their insurance lapse, then they could be charged a penalty to re-enroll could be charged more.


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DONALD TRUMP
Secondly, we should help Americans purchase their own coverage, through the use of tax credits and expanded health savings accounts, but it must be the plan they want, not the plan forced on them by our government.

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DONALD TRUMP
Thirdly, we should give our state governors the resources and flexibility they need with Medicaid to make sure no one is left out.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
Fourth, we should implement legal reforms that protect patients and doctors from unnecessary costs that drive up the price of insurance and work to bring down the artificially high price of drugs and bring them down immediately.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
And finally, the time has come to give Americans the freedom to purchase health insurance across state lines.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
Which will create a truly competitive national marketplace that will bring cost way down and provide far better care. So important. Everything that is broken in our country can be fixed. Every problem can be solved. And every hurting family can find healing and hope. Our citizens deserve this and so much more. So why not join forces and finally get the job done and get it done right?

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
On this and so many other things, Democrats and Republicans should get together and unite for the good of our country and for the good of the American people.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
My administration wants to work with members of both parties to make childcare accessible and affordable, to help ensure new parents – that they have paid family leave.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
To invest in women’s health, and to promote clean air and clean water, and to rebuild our military and our infrastructure.

(APPLAUSE)

DONALD TRUMP
True love for our people requires us to find common ground, to advance the common good and to cooperate on behalf of every American child who deserves a much brighter future. An incredible young woman is with us this evening, who should serve as an inspiration to us all. Today is Rare Disease Day, and

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KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysian prosecutors will charge two women – an Indonesian and a Vietnamese – with murder over their alleged involvement in the killing of the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader, the Southeast Asian country’s attorney general said on Tuesday.

Kim Jong Nam, who had criticised the regime of his family and his half-brother Kim Jong Un, was killed in Kuala Lumpur earlier this month after the two women allegedly smeared VX nerve agent, a chemical described by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction, across his face.


Read also: Kim Jong-nam murder suspect Siti Aisyah partied the night before assassination


Attorney general Mohamed Apandi Ali said the women will be formally charged on Wednesday under section 302 of the penal code, which carries the death penalty. "I can confirm that," he told Reuters in a text message.

South Korean officials believe the murder was carried out by North Korean agents, and Malaysia has identified eight North Koreans suspected of involvement in the killing.


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ちんちん (Chinchin) : penis, dick
Some shyer girls might refer to it as “おちんちん” (ochinchin) or “honorable penis” in English, to the delight of males all over Japan.
まんこ (Manko): vagina, pussy
おっぱい (Oppai): breasts, boobs
おおきい (Ookii!): It’s so big! / They’re so big!
Can be used to talk about the male anatomy or breasts.
すごいきれい! (Sugoi kirei.): You look gorgeous. / They’re gorgeous.
Often used to talk about breasts.
なめてほしい！ (Namete hoshii!): Lick (or suck) it!
くすぐったい (Kusuguttai!): It tickles!
だめ! (Dame!): You can’t! / Don’t do that!
Tread carefully with this one. Depending on the situation, it could actually mean “keep doing that” or “don’t do that.” If you’re not sure, ask. In Japanese porn, girls often try to appear “demure” by saying no at first, even though they really “want it” but are too embarrassed to say. There’s nothing wrong with a bit of role play in the bedroom, as long as both parties are ok with it.
やめて! (Yamete!): Stop!
See above.
いれてほしい (Irete hoshii!): Put it in! / I want it now!
なまがいい (Nama ga ii!): Let’s do it bareback!
なまはだめ (Nama wa dame!): No, let’s use a condom!
きもちいい (Kimochi ii… ): It feels good….
ぬれてる (Nureteru!): You’re so wet!
あったかい (Attakai!): You’re so warm!
やばい! (Yabai!): It feels amazing!
がまんして (Gaman shite!): Don’t come yet!
がまんできない (Gaman dekinai… ): I can’t wait any longer…
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Female Kim Jong-nam ‘assassin’ had party 24 hours before killing and said she would be a "big star"

Siti Aisyah had a big night out with pals, who threw her a party at a Kuala Lumpur nightclub and claim she is innocent

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A suspect in the murder of Kim Jong-nam had a wild night out just 24 hours before the assassination – joking she was going to be a ‘big star’.

Siti Aisyah’s friends chipped in to throw a birthday party for her at a well-known night club in Kuala Lumpur on Feb 12.

Just a day before the death of Jong-nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, she said she was to take part in a ‘prank for a reality show’.

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In a video published by China Daily, Siti Aisyah laughed and covered her face shyly when her friends commented she was going to be a ‘big star’.


Siti Aisyah, 25, works as a Spa masseuse and is pictured following her arrest (Photo: AFP)

Kim Jong-nam was murdered at Kuala Lumpur international airport (Photo: Reuters)
She was 25 on Feb 11 – two days before Jong-nam was killed using the lethal chemical weapon VX in the budget airline terminal of Kuala Lumpur international airport.

“I do not believe Siti Aisyah would kill someone just for money,” her best friend said. “It is impossible. I think she has been framed.”

She said Siti Aisyah did not know Jong-nam and had no motive to kill him.


She claimed Aisyah was innocent. Aisyah has told authorities she was paid £72 to carry out the attack , but thought they were wiping Jong-nam’s face with baby oil, not VX, the most lethal chemical agent known to man.

The revelations emerged as North Korea was accused of operating a regiment-level biochemical weapons unit by old enemy South Korea.

Their military warned they had to be prepared for unconventional attacks in the wake of Jong-nam’s assassination with VX, classified by the United Nations as a weapon of mass destruction and banned around the world.

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Suspected assassin wearing LOL sweatshirt
South Korea’s Ministry of National Defence claimed North Korea operated production facilities for chemical and biological weapons, and has a stockpile of such materials that can be used in any attack.

Playboy Jong-nam, 46, collapsed and died after two women allegedly wiped the highly toxic substances across his face. One was vomiting after the attack because of her exposure to a substance which is renowned as one of the world’s deadliest poisons.

A hundredth of a gram is enough to kill within 30 minutes. A drop on a cloth would have been enough to take his life.


Kim Jong-un is believed to have ordered the killing (Photo: Getty)
Experts claim its use put beyond any doubt that the so-called ‘playboy prince’ had been assassinated on the orders of his half brother after he criticised the secretive communist regime in 2012.

Absorbed in large doses, it is fatal after 15 minutes, according to the U.S. Army’s Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, making it the most toxic known nerve agent in the world.

CCTV footage captured the moment Jong-nam was brazenly murdered at the packed airport.

It is still not known how the agent was applied without the woman becoming ill.

Footage begins with him arriving at the concourse in Kuala Lumpur International Airport in a light jacket and carrying a backpack.

He is shown looking at the flight departure boards with other passengers.

READ MORE
Kim Jong-nam murder: Airport decontaminated after VX nerve agent used to assassinate North Korean leader’s brother


Kim, who was preparing to fly to Macau, goes to a ticket machine while the suspects are also shown lurking in the vicinity.

The "LOL jumper" suspect Doan Thi Huong approaches him from behind.


She reaches around appears to target his face, possibly with a poisoned cloth or spray while still standing behind him.

The two appear to wrestle for a second.




Other travellers stand nearby and don’t appear to realise what has just occurred.

The attacker then casually walks off unrushed.



Kim is then shown seeking help from airport staff as he complains about the incident.

He is then shown in the airport’s medical clinic.


He later died on the way to hospital.

South Korean and U.S. officials have said Kim Jong Nam was assassinated by North Korean agents.

Malaysian police said on Sunday that four North Korean suspects in the murder fled Malaysia on the day of the killing.


(Photo: REUTERS)
Malaysian police arrested a North Korean man on Friday in connection to the murder, while the Vietnamese woman and Indonesian woman have also been arrested.

Interpol will now be asked to help in the hunt for seven North Koreans linked to the murder, including a diplomat and airline official said to be in hiding in the country’s embassy in Kuala Lumpur.

The hermit state has accused Malaysia of having “sinister” purposes – saying Jong nam died of ‘heart stroke’.

Police also want to speak to Jong-nam’s mistress as they probe his murder, according to sources in Malaysia.

North Korean So Yong Ra, 41, is a former air stewardess with Air Koryo, North Korea’s national flag carrier.

Her name has previously been reported as So Yong La.

Channel NewsAsia, who published a photo of her, said she was from Pyongyang.

A police source said: “She is believed to have lived in Macau together with him since 2001 and eventually got married.

“She worked at Air Koryo from 1992 to 1998. She studied at the Pyongyang Music and Dance University.”

It has been previously reported Jong-nam had two wives, at least one mistress and several children, including a son and a daughter by his second wife, Lee Hye-Kyong.


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Fortress (chess)
Chess tactic
This article is about a defensive technique in chess. For the chess variant, see Fortress chess.
In chess, the fortress is an endgame drawing technique in which the side behind in material sets up a zone of protection around their king that cannot be penetrated by the opponent. This only works when the opponent does not have a passed pawn or cannot create one, unless that pawn can be stopped (e.g. see the opposite-colored bishops example). An elementary fortress is a theoretically drawn (i.e. a book draw) position with reduced material in which a passive defense will maintain the draw (Müller & Pajeken 2008:183).

Fortresses commonly have four characteristics:

Useful pawn breakthroughs are not possible
If the stronger side has pawns, they are firmly blocked
The stronger side’s king cannot penetrate, either because it is cut off or near the edge of the board
Zugzwang positions cannot be forced, because the defender has waiting moves available (de la Villa 2008:23).
Fortresses pose a problem for computer chess: computers fail to recognize fortress-type positions and are unable to achieve the win against them despite claiming a winning advantage (Guid & Bratko 2012:35).

Fortress in a corner

Rook and pawn versus queen

Opposite-colored bishops

Queen versus two minor pieces

Knight versus a rook and pawn

Bishop versus rook and bishop pawn on the sixth rank

Defense perimeter (pawn fortress)

Other examples

A semi-fortress

Positional draw

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Magnus Carlsen

Photo courtesy of Magnus Carlsen’s Official Facebook Page.

Number of games in database: 2,457
Years covered: 1999 to 2017
Last FIDE rating: 2840 (2896 rapid, 2914 blitz)
Highest rating achieved in database: 2882
Overall record: +646 -263 =646 (62.3%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games in the database. 902 exhibition games, blitz/rapid, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.
MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
Sicilian (238)
B90 B30 B40 B33 B46
Ruy Lopez (154)
C65 C78 C67 C95 C77
Queen’s Pawn Game (72)
A45 D02 E10 A40 A46
Slav (69)
D15 D17 D12 D10 D11
Nimzo Indian (64)
E32 E21 E20 E54 E36
French Defense (57)
C00 C11 C18 C02 C03
With the Black pieces:
Sicilian (232)
B33 B30 B22 B31 B90
Ruy Lopez (158)
C67 C78 C95 C65 C69
Queen’s Indian (88)
E15 E12 E17 E16 E14
Nimzo Indian (59)
E32 E34 E20 E21 E55
Queen’s Gambit Declined (58)
D37 D38 D31 D30 D39
Queen’s Pawn Game (57)
A45 A46 E00 E10 A40


NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
Carlsen vs S Ernst, 2004 1-0
Carlsen vs H Harestad, 2003 1-0
J L Hammer vs Carlsen, 2003 0-1
Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2008 0-1
Anand vs Carlsen, 2013 0-1
Carlsen vs G Tallaksen Ostmoe, 2005 1-0
Carlsen vs A Groenn, 2005 1-0
Nakamura vs Carlsen, 2014 0-1
Carlsen vs Aronian, 2008 1-0
Carlsen vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2015 1-0

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)
Anand – Carlsen World Championship (2013)
Carlsen – Anand World Championship (2014)

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
Norwegian Championship (2006)
Corus Group C (2004)
Norwegian Championship (2004)
Corus Group B (2006)
Corus (2010)
Tata Steel (2015)
Pearl Spring Chess Tournament (2009)
King’s Tournament (2010)
Tata Steel (2013)
Norwegian Championship (2005)
Midnight Sun Chess Challenge (2006)
Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2010)
FIDE World Cup (2005)
World Chess Cup (2007)
XXII Reykjavik Open (2006)

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MAGNUS CARLSEN
(born Nov-30-1990, 26 years old) Norway
Magnus Carlsen (full name: Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen) is the 16th undisputed World Champion. He won the crown from Viswanathan Anand in November 2013 and successfully defended it in a return contest with the former title holder in November 2014. In November 2016, he retained his crown when he defeated the Challenger, Sergey Karjakin, in the rapid game tiebreaker after the 12-game classical match was tied.

Landmarks

FM (2002); IM (2003); GM (2004); vice-World U12 World Champion (2002); Norwegian Champion (2006); Candidate (2007 & 2013); World Champion (2013 & 2014); World Rapid Champion (2014 & 2015) and World Blitz Champion (2009 & 2014), winner of the Grand Chess Tour (2015), five-time winner at Wijk aan Zee (2008 (jointly with Levon Aronian), 2010, 2013, 2015 & 2016).

Carlsen has been the world’s top ranked player since January 2010, apart from six months between November 2010 and June 2011 when he was #2, and possesses the highest standard FIDE rating ever posted, as well as the highest ever live rating. In January 2016, he became the first person to be the world #1 in standard, rapid and blitz chess.

Master Norms

<IM norms> Carlsen earned his first IM norm in January 2003 at the Gausdal Troll Masters when he scored 7/10. His second IM norm came in June 2003 at the Salongernas IM-tournament in Stockholm where he scored 6/9 and his third IM norm came in the following month at the 2003 Politiken Cup in Copenhagen where he scored 8/11.

<GM norms> In early 2004, Carlsen made a major international impact when he won Corus C with 10.5/13, easily winning his first grandmaster norm and earning his entry to the Corus B in 2005. Carlsen obtained his second grandmaster norm in the 3rd Aeroflot Festival (2004) in February and his third grandmaster norm at the sixth 6th Dubai Open (2004), held between 18th and 28th April.

Background:

He was born in Tønsberg, Vestfold. His parents are Sigrun Øen and Henrik Carlsen, both of whom are engineers. His father taught him chess at the age of eight after which he soon played his first tournament, a junior (Miniputt) Norwegian championship. He was coached by seven-time Norwegian Champion Simen Agdestein and by Torbjorn Ringdal Hansen. He won the title of International Master in 2003 at the age of 12 years 7 months and 25 days. In 2004, after having gained over 300 rating points in little over a year, he became the second-youngest grandmaster in chess history at the time, behind only Sergey Karjakin, at the age of 13 years 4 months and 27 days. Parimarjan Negi later pipped his record by five days to become the second youngest grandmaster ever.

Championships:

<Age>: Carlsen won the Norwegian U11 Championship in 2000 and the U10 Nordic Championship in 2001. In 2002, he placed =1st in the Open Norwegian Junior Championship with 5.5/7, but easily won the same event the following year with 6/6. Carlsen started with 4/4 at the 2002 U12 European Championship but faded to finish sixth. In the 2002 U12 World Championship a few weeks later, Carlsen was sole leader coming into the last round, but was held to a draw by David Howell, enabling Ian Nepomniachtchi to equal his score and to win on tiebreak. He placed =3rd at the 2003 U14 European Championship, half a point behind Sergei Zhigalko and Tornike Sanikidze, a short time later placing =9th with 7.5/11 at the World U14 Championship in Halkidiki.

<National and Continental>: A couple of weeks after being eliminated from the FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004) (see below), he placed =1st in the 2004 Norwegian Championship. However, after a two-game play-off match with co-leader and until then, six-time Norwegian champion, Berge Ostenstad was drawn, Østenstad was declared winner on tiebreak. In the 2005 Norwegian Chess Championship, Carlsen again finished in a shared first place, this time with his mentor Simen Agdestein. A rapid game playoff between them resulted in Agdestein’s victory by 3.5-2.5 (+2 -1 =3). Carlsen finally won the Norwegian Championship in 2006, after defeating Simen Agdestein in a tie-break match.

Carlsen’s first and and so far only participation in the continental championship provided a solid 22-point boost to his rating when he scored 8/13 in the 6th European Individual Championship (2005).

<World>: Carlsen qualified for the FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004), but was eliminated in the first round tiebreaker by Levon Aronian. His hopes to become a contender for the World Championship in the future took a big step forward by placing tenth at the FIDE World Cup (2005), becoming the youngest player ever to qualify for the Candidates. In his first Candidates match in Elista in May, he drew 3-3 in the six slow games of the Candidates Match: Aronian – Carlsen (2007) before losing in rapid-play tie-breaks. He reached the final four in the World Chess Cup (2007) before being defeated in the semi-finals by the eventual winner, Gata Kamsky. Carlsen’s final placing in the 2007 World Cup qualified him for participation in the FIDE Grand Prix for 2008-09. Soon afterwards he tied for first place in the Baku Grand Prix (2008), the first round of FIDE’s inaugural Grand Prix series. Carlsen later withdrew from the Grand Prix cycle despite his excellent result in Baku, complaining about "dramatic changes to … regulations." and that “…changing the rules dramatically in the middle of a cycle is simply unacceptable.”

On the basis of his rating, Carlsen qualified for the Candidates Tournament that would determine the challenger to World Champion Viswanathan Anand in 2012. In November 2010, however, Carlsen announced he was withdrawing from the Candidates tournament. Carlsen described the 2008–12 cycle as not "…sufficiently modern and fair", and added that "Reigning champion privileges, the long (five year) span of the cycle, changes made during the cycle resulting in a new format (Candidates) that no World Champion has had to go through since Kasparov, puzzling ranking criteria as well as the shallow ceaseless match-after-match concept are all less than satisfactory in my opinion." Carlsen qualified for the World Championship Candidates (2013) that was played in London, again on the basis of his rating. He placed =1st with Vladimir Kramnik on 8.5/14 after both players lost their last round games, but as the first tiebreaker (score against each other in the tournament which was 1-1) failed to break the tie, he won on the second tiebreak which stipulated that the player with the greater number of wins takes first place; he had scored five wins to Kramnik’s four. During the tournament, Carlsen set a new live rating record of 2878.9 after he defeated Gelfand in round 10.

In November 2013, Carlsen won the Anand – Carlsen World Championship (2013) that was staged in Chennai. The first four games were drawn before Carlsen won the fifth and sixth games. The seventh and eighth games were drawn, with Carlsen then winning the ninth game and drawing the tenth and last game to win by 6.5-3.5 (+3 =7).

World Championship Defence 2014

Carlsen defended his World Championship title against Anand – who won the right to challenge for the title by winning the World Chess Championship Candidates (2014) that was held in March 2014 – in Sochi in Russia in November 2014.

The first game of the Carlsen – Anand World Championship (2014) was a fighting draw with Carlsen playing Black and successfully defending a Grunfeld. He drew first blood in game two playing the White side of a quiet Ruy Lopez, breaking down Black’s defences before the first time control. After the first rest day, Anand struck back strongly playing the White side of a Queen’s Gambit Declined (D37), and overcame Carlsen before the first time control. In game 4, Anand played the Sicilian but Carlsen steered the opening into a quiet positional struggle that ended in a draw. Game 5 featured a Queen’s Indian Defence by Carlsen which also ended in a draw. Game 6 may have been the turning point in the match. Anand missed a simple tactical stroke as Black that would have given him a very strong, if not winning position and the lead in the match. After missing this continuation, Anand’s game weakened and Carlsen brought home the point to take the lead in the match for the second time.

Game 7 was another Berlin Defence by Anand who encountered difficulties and surrendered a piece for two pawns. However, his defence kept Carlsen at bay for 122 moves before the game was finally drawn due to insufficient mating material on the board. Game 8 in the match was another QGD, with Carlsen playing Black introducing an innovation from his home preparation that guaranteed him a relatively easy draw. After another rest day, play resumed with Carlsen playing the White side of a Ruy Lopez that turned into a Berlin Defence by Anand. The game quickly came to an end through a draw by repetition, with Carlsen content to maintain his one-point lead. In Game 10, Carlsen again defended a Grunfeld, albeit not as convincingly as in Game 1. However, he defended a long initiative by Anand to secure a drew to continue to maintain his one point lead. Game 11 was another Berlin Defence by Anand which turned into a complex and hard fought middle game following an innovation by Anand on the queenside, which was followed by an exchange sacrifice. Carlsen successfully defended to bring home the final point needed to secure his title for another two years.

Match result: Carlsen won by 6.5-4.5 (+3 -1 =7).

World Championship Defence 2016

Carlsen’s next defence of his classical world title was in November 2016, starting November 11th, in New York City. Sergey Karjakin won the right to challenge him by finishing clear first in the World Championship Candidates (2016). Carlsen retained his title when he drew the classical games 6-6 (+1 -1 =10) and won the rapiad game tiebreaker 3-1 (+2 =2). See Carlsen – Karjakin World Championship (2016) for more information.

Classical Tournaments:

<2004-2007> Carlsen placed 3rd at the 12th Sigeman & Co Chess Tournament (2004) followed later that month with a solid =3rd place at the Politiken Cup 2004, a half point behind the leaders Darmen Sadvakasov and compatriot Leif Erlend Johannessen. In October 2005, he won the Gausdal Bygger’n Masters in Norway with 8/9 ahead of 9 other grandmasters. He continued to improve in 2006, tying Alexander Motylev for first place in Corus Group B (2006). After several more strong performances during the year, including 6.5/9 at the XXII Reykjavik Open (2006), =2nd at Bosna Sarajevo Tournament (2006), =2nd behind Sergei Shipov at the Midnight Sun Challenge at Breivika videregaende skole in Norway, =2nd at Biel Int’l Festival (2006) (after beating the winner Alexander Morozevich twice), first at the Gausdal Classics GM-A and a joint second-place finish at Linares – Morelia (2007), he crossed the 2700-mark, the youngest player ever to do so. A relatively poor result at Dortmund (2007) (3/7) was followed by a win at Biel Chess Festival (2007) (His score was equaled by Alexander Onischuk and so they played a tie-breaker match to determine the winner. After drawing two rapid and two blitz games, Carlsen won the Armageddon game) and a par for rating =2nd at the Arctic Chess Challenge (2007) where he scored 7/9, a half point behind the leader Alexander Moiseenko, and 3rd at the Tal Memorial (2007) in November 2007.

<2008-2009> In 2008 Carlsen was the joint winner of Corus (2008) A-Group together with Levon Aronian, and placed second in Morelia-Linares (2008) behind Anand. He won clear first place at Aerosvit (2008) with a dominant 8/11 score. His "disappointing" third placement at 41st Biel International Chess Festival (2008) with 6/10, a half point behind joint winners Leinier Dominguez Perez and Evgeny Alekseev, was nevertheless still a 2740 performance, whilst his equal second in the Bilbao Grand Slam Chess Final (2008) with 5.0/10 was a 2768 performance. His relatively meagre 7/13 at Corus (2009) was followed by equal second placement behind Kramnik at Dortmund (2009) with a 2773 performance and 2nd with 5/9 at the M-Tel Masters (2009). The arrival of Garry Kasparov in 2009 as his coach enabled Carlsen’s finest tournament performance to date, and one of the best tournament results in the history of chess. Carlsen eclipsed a stellar field consisting of Topalov, Peter Leko, Dmitry Jakovenko, Teimour Radjabov and Wang Yue to win clear first prize with 8/10 at the category XXI Pearl Spring Chess Tournament (2009). Carlsen’s performance rating for the tournament was a record 3002 and lifted his FIDE rating in the November 2009 list to 2801, which made him only the fifth player to surpass 2800, and easily the youngest. After a slow start, Carlsen placed equal second with Vassily Ivanchuk behind Vladimir Kramnik in the Category XXI Tal Memorial (2009), which fielded ten of the world’s top thirteen rated players. He saw out 2009 with a win at the London Chess Classic (2009), a point ahead of Kramnik, a result which pushed him to the top of the world ratings in January 2010.

<2010-2012> In 2010, Carlsen’s success continued, winning Corus (2010) outright with 8.5/13, half a point ahead of joint second place finishers Kramnik and Alexey Shirov. In June, he won the category XXI King’s Tournament (2010) in Bazna in Romania by a clear two points with 7.5/10 and a 2918 performance. Following mediocre performances at the 2010 Olympiad and the category XXII Bilbao Masters (2010), Carlsen returned to form by winning the category XXI Nanjing Pearl Spring Tournament (2010) outright with 7/10 (+4 -0 =6) and a 2901 rating performance, a full point ahead of World Champion Anand who took outright second with 6/10, and finishing the year by winning the London Chess Classic (2010) for the second time in succession. After a slow start in the Tata Steel (2011) super tournament, Carlsen finished =3rd with Levon Aronian behind Hikaru Nakamura and Anand with 8/13 and a performance rating of 2821. He followed up in June by winning the Bazna King’s Tournament (2011) on tiebreak ahead of Karjakin, both finishing with 6.5/10, and by winning Biel Chess Festival (2011) in July with a round to spare and with a final score of 7/10 (TPR 2835). After another characteristically slow start, Carlsen placed =1st with Ivanchuk at the 4th Bilbao Masters (2011) with 15 points under the Bilbao scoring system (+3 -1 =6) and a 2842 performance rating, ultimately winning the tournament in a blitz tiebreaker. Then in November 2011, Carlsen won the Tal Memorial (2011) on tiebreak with 5.5/9 (+2 =7 -0 and a TPR of 2850) over Aronian. Carlsen finished 2011 with 3rd place at the category 20 London Chess Classic (2011) behind Kramnik and Nakamura, scoring +3 =5 (TPR of 2879). 2012 started with =2nd (+4 -1 =8; TPR 2830) behind Aronian and alongside Radjabov and Fabiano Caruana at the Category 21 Tata Steel (2012). He won the category 22 Tal Memorial (2012) outright with 5.5/9 (+2 =7) and a TPR of 2849. The month after his strong results in the World Blitz he finished outright second behind Wang Hao in the Grandmaster Tournament of the Biel Chess Festival (2012). In October 2012, Carlsen repeated his 2011 feat at Bilbao by winning the Bilbao Masters (2012) in a tiebreaker, this time against Caruana. He finished up 2012 by winning the London Chess Classic (2012), the third time he has done so, with a score of 6.5/8 (+5 =3 -0) and a TPR of 2994 (only fractionally below his record effort at Pearl Springs in 2009). London 2012 was also made historic for the fact that Carlsen’s result lifted his January 2013 rating to a new record, exceeding Kasparov’s record 2851 by 10 points.

<2013> Building on his achievements of 2012, Carlsen won the category 20 Tata Steel (2013) tournament with a round to spare, his final score being 10/13. He also set a new live rating record of 2874 after his round 12 win over Nakamura, although this was superseded at the Candidates in March. In May 2013 he played in the category 21 Norway Chess Tournament (2013) held in the Stavanger Region of Norway and came 2nd with 5.5/9, half a point behind the winner Sergey Karjakin; in the preliminary Norway Chess Tournament (Blitz) (2013) held to determine the draw, he came 2nd with 6/9 behind Karjakin, thereby earning 5 games as White out of the 9 to be played. In June he again came outright 2nd, this time at the category 22 Tal Memorial (2013), half a point behind the winner Boris Gelfand. His last hit out before the World Championship match against Anand in November 2013 was the category 22 double round robin Sinquefield Cup (2013), which he won outright with 4.5/6 (+3 =3; TPR of 2966).

<2014> Carlsen’s first tournament as World Champion was the Zurich Chess Challenge (2014), the first ever category 23 tournament (average rating 2801). He came from behind to take equal first with Aronian in the Zurich Chess Challenge (Blitz) (2014), which determined the colors in the main event (Carlsen has 4 whites and 1 black). By round 4 of the standard time event, he extended his live rating to 2882.6, breaking the record he established in round 3. His round 5 draw with Anand enabled him to finish the standard time event in first place, 2 scoring points ahead of Aronian. He needed 3.5/5 in the Zurich Chess Challenge (Rapid) (2014) played on the final day to guarantee his win in the event, however his 2/5 result was sufficient to win the combined event by one point under the scoring system used. His next event was the category 22 Gashimov Memorial (2014), a new event in honor of the late Azeri GM Vugar Gashimov, which he won outright with a score of 6.5/10, defeating Fabiano Caruana, his rival for first prize, in the last round. Although he was the only undefeated player at the Norway Chess Tournament (2014), he won insufficient games to win the event, which was successfully defended by last year’s winner, Sergei Karjakin. In August 2014, he played in the category 23 (only the second such strength event) Sinquefield Cup (2014) and came outright second with 5.5/10, 3 points behind Caruana, the runaway leader of the tournament.

<2015> Following his successful defence of his title against Anand in November 2014, Carlsen won the Tata Steel (2015) outright with a score of 9/13 (+6 -1 =6), his six wins scored in succession after starting the event poorly with two draws and a loss. In April 2015, Carlsen won the category 21 Gashimov Memorial (2015) outright for the second year in succession with a powerful score of 7/9 (+5 =4), a full point clear of a resurgent Viswanathan Anand, who was outright runner up with 6/9. This high was followed by a low at the category 22 Norway Chess (2015) in Stavanger in June 2015, when he crashed and burned to his worst tournament result in almost a decade. After losing his first round game on time to Topalov in a won position, Carlsen never recovered and registered a 3.5/9 (+2-4=3) result that slashed 23 points from his rating. A slow start in the category 22 Sinquefield Cup (2015) following an early loss to Topalov, was followed by three successive wins which enabled Carlsen to draw level with the leader by round 5, before the rest day. However, a crucial loss to Grischuk from an advantageous position and missed opportunities to win against Nakamura relegated him to equal second in the event, a point behind the outright winner Levon Aronian. This result also caused him to shed a few ratings points.

Still struggling with his form, Carlsen began his campaign at the category 23 London Chess Classic (2015) with his characteristic slow start, but was able to finish equal first in the ninth and final round with a win over Alexander Grischuk, scoring 5.5/9 alongside Anish Giri and a surging Maxime Vachier-Lagrave. A three way rapid game tiebreak resulted in Carlsen winning the tournament as well as the Grand Chess Tour of 2015. He finished 2015 with a flourish when he won the powerful Qatar Masters (2015) by sharing first with an undefeated 7/9, then winning 2-0 in the blitz playoff against Yu Yangyi. His tiebreak wins against Yu Yangyi also elevated him back to world #1 in blitz.

<2016> The year started in the best possible way for Carlsen when he scored 9/13 to win outright at the category 20 Tata Steel (2016) event, a point ahead of Caruana and Ding Liren. This was his fifth win at Wijk aan Zee, tying with Anand for the record number of wins at this event, which has been running since 1938. In April, he won the Norway Chess (2016) event for the first time, scoring 6/9 to finish outright first, a half point ahead of outright second placed Aronian who won their individual game; Carlsen also won the preliminary Norway Blitz (2016) with 7.5/9, a point ahead of outright second placed Giri, to win the right to five starts as white in the nine round principal tournament. In July, Carlsen emerged as the outright winner of the Bilbao (2016), well ahead of the runner up Nakamura.

Rapid:

Carlsen won the Glitnir Blitz Tournament in 2006 in Iceland. In September 2006 Carlsen placed 8th out of 16 participants at the World Blitz Championship (2006) in Rishon LeZion, Israel. In the blitz tournament associated with the Tal Memorial 2006, namely the Tal Blitz Cup, Carlsen scored 17½/34 points and placed 9th in a group of 18 participants. In March 2007, Carlsen played for the first time in the Melody Amber blind and rapid chess tournament in Monte Carlo. In the 11 rounds of the 16th Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2007), he achieved eight draws and three losses (placing =9th) then scored three wins, seven draws and one loss in the 16th Amber Tournament (Rapid) (2007) (=2nd), for an overall 8th place in the combined tournament. In March 2008, Carlsen played for the second time in the Melody Amber blind and rapid chess tournament, which was held in Nice for the first time. Carlsen achieved four wins, four draws and two losses in the Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2008), and three wins, two losses, and six draws in the Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2008), resulting in a shared second place in the overall tournament.

In the Chess Classic Mainz (2008), Carlsen finished in second place after losing the final to defending champion Anand 3:1 (two losses, two draws). 2009 saw Carlsen score equal first in the Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2009) with 7/11 alongside Kramnik and Aronian, and equal second with Veselin Topalov at M-Tel Masters (2009) behind Shirov with a 2822 performance. He also won the XXII Magistral Ciudad de Leon (2009), a rapid knockout tournament, ahead of Morozevich, Ivanchuk, and Wang Yue. Just a few days after his 2nd placement at the Tal Memorial (2009), he won the World Blitz Championship (2009) with 31/42, a full three points ahead of runner-up Anand. He shared first place at the 2010 Amber Rapid and Blindfold Tournament with Ivanchuk; scoring 6½ points in the blindfold and 8 points in the rapid, Carlsen accumulated 14½ from a possible 22 points. After a slow start in the Arctic Securities Chess Stars (2010) rapid tournament, he continued his success by defeating Anand in the two-game playoff for gold. In the World Blitz Championship (2010), held in Moscow on 16–18 November, Carlsen attempted to defend his 2009 title. With a score of 23½/38, he finished in third place behind Radjabov and the winner Aronian. After the tournament, Carlsen played a private 40-game blitz match against Hikaru Nakamura, winning with a score of 23½–16½. A phenomenal 9.5/11, 2.5 points clear of the field, in 20th Amber Tournament (Rapid) (2011) was insufficient for him to win the overall contest, as his results in the 20th Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2011) were poor, resulting in a 2nd overall to 2008 and 2009 overall winner Aronian. In July 2012 he came clear 2nd in the World Rapid Championship (2012) behind Karjakin with 10.5/15, and clear 2nd in the World Blitz Championship (2012) with 19.5/30, half a point behind Alexander Grischuk.

In June 2014, he realized his ambition to be the triple champion (of standard, rapid and blitz chess) when he won the FIDE World Rapid Championship (2014) with 11/15, half a point ahead of runner-up Caruana, and the FIDE World Blitz Championship (2014) with 17/21, one point clear of Nepomniachtchi and Nakamura. In October 2015, he successfully backed up to defend his title at the World Rapid Championship (2015), scoring 11.5/15, a point clear of runners-up Leinier Dominguez Perez, Teimour Radjabov and Ian Nepomniachtchi. Carlsen was second in the Paris Grand Chess Tour, placing second to Nakamura in the Grand Chess Tour Paris Rapid (2016) and equal first in the Grand Chess Tour Paris Blitz (2016) alongside Nakamura to take second place behind the US grandmaster. Soon afterward, he was overall first in the Leuven legs of the Grand Chess Tour, having won both the YourNextMove Rapid (2016) and the YourNextMove Blitz (2016). Carlsen won his final event before the upcoming Carlsen – Karjakin World Championship (2016) in New York, when he won the final of the Carlsen-Nakamura Chess.com Blitz Battle (2016) against Hikaru Nakamura. Carlsen obtained a large lead after the 5m+2spm and 3m+2spm sections and narrowly lost the bullet 1m+1spm with a final score of 14.5-10.5.

Matches:

The DSB Bank match between Loek van Wely and Magnus Carlsen took place 28th April – 1st May 2006. The four game classical time limit match was tied 2-2. Carlsen won the blitz portion of the match 3.5-0.5. He won a rapid match against Peter Leko held in Miskolc, Hungary, scoring 5:3 (+2 =6). Carlsen played in a curtain raiser to the Norwegian Championship, winning the Carlsen – Predojevic Rapid Match (2013) by 2.5-1.5 (+1 =3); the match was organized by the "Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue" to celebrate the long-standing relationship between Lillehammer and Sarajevo. (1)

Team:

<Olympiad>: Carlsen represented Norway on board one in the 36th Olympiad (2004), the 37th Chess Olympiad (2006), the Olympiad (2008), the Chess Olympiad (2010), the Chess Olympiad (2014) and in the Chess Olympiad (2016). His best result was in the 2006 Olympiad, where he scored 6 points from 8 games and came 5th for board one. In 2016, he scored 7.5/10 placing 6th on board one, assisting his twelfth seeded Norwegian team to place 5th.

<National> He played board 1 for Norway at the European Team Chess Championships (2007) and won an individual silver medal. He again played board 1 for Norway at the European Team Championship (2015), but returned a very poor result with 3.5/7, losing another 16 rating points to bring him down to his lowest rating (2834) since January 2012.

<Club> Carlsen played four seasons in the European Club Cup. In 2001 and 2003 he played for Asker Norway on board 6 and board 1 (after he had gained his FM title) respectively, while his father Henrik was reserve on both occasions. In 2007 he played board 3 for OS Baden Baden, and in 2008 he played top board for MIKA Yerevan. His total game result from these 4 seasons was 15.5/27 (+11 -7 =9). He also played in the Norwegian Team Championship in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006, in the Bundesliga in the 2004-05, 2006-07, 2007/08, 2008-09 seasons, and in the Dutch Team Championship 2007.

<Other Team> In August 2006, he played in the NH Hotels event featuring the older Experience Team vs Youth team (easily won by the Youth team 28–22), and was equal top scorer with Alexander Beliavsky with 6.5/10.

Rating:

The highest official rating achieved by Carlsen to date was 2882 in May 2014. His highest live rating was 2889.2 on 21 April 2014. Both are the highest ratings ever achieved.

Carlsen’s 1 December 2016 FIDE ratings are:

<Standard>: 2840, making him the world #1 ranked player. By the end of the December 2016 rating period, he will have been world number one for a total of 77 months. He holds the record for the longest period as the world’s top ranked Junior (U20) – 36 months – from 1 January 2008 until 31 December 2010. He was also both world number one junior and world number one player for the first 10 months of 2010. Furthermore, he holds the record for the highest rating acquired by any player aged 13, and 17 through to 24 inclusive.

<Rapid>: 2894 (world #1); and

<Blitz>: 2873 (world #2).

Other:

Carlsen won the Chess Oscars for 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 and he was also awarded Norway’s annual Peer Gynt Prize for 2011 for being "a person or institution that has achieved distinction in society". (2) After he won the World Championship he was awarded Norway’s "Name of the Year" award for 2013. (3) He has two sisters, Ellen Oen Carlsen and Ingrid Oen Carlsen. Carlsen helped Anand prepare for the World Chess Championships in 2007 and 2008 and 2010. Carlsen has modeled for G-Star Raw, starting with its Autumn/Winter 2010 advertising campaign.

At the Sohn Conference held in New York in May 2015, Carlsen demonstrated his skill by playing three players in a blindfold clock simul. Carlsen and each of the three players were given nine minutes. Carlsen won 3-0. A video of the event can be seen at the link in footnote (4). On September 22, 2016 he was in New York City to play a simul against 11 users of the Play Magnus mobile app. Everybody had 30 minutes on their clocks. Magnus won 11 to 0 (Carlsen Play Live Simul (2016)).

General Sources:

Carlsen’s FIDE player card; Wikipedia article: Magnus Carlsen; live rating: http://www.2700chess.com/; official website: http://www.magnuscarlsen.com/; blogs: http://www.arcticsec.no/index.php?b... (English language); http://simonsenlaw.no/ (Norwegian language); World Championship Index: http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/wcc... and Olimpbase, the Encyclopedia of Team Chess: http://www.olimpbase.org/

Footnotes:

(1) Magnus Carlsen and Borki Predojevic play in Lillehammer – http://www.peace.no/index.php?optio...
(2) Chess star wins prestigious award – http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/03...
(3) Magnus Carlsen vant tre av tre priser på Idrettsgallaen – http://www.nrk.no/sport/videoklipp/...
(4) Carlsen blitzes blindfold clock simul – http://en.chessbase.com/post/carlse...

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Feb-16-17 offramp: I’d prefer it if the Norway tournament had 7 of the world’s top 10 and 5 lesser-ranked players, probably one other Norwegian player and four youngsters.

Feb-16-17 Billy Vaughan: <Best to most ridiculous:>
My own ranking is similar

1. Naka
2. Vishy
3. So
4. Karjakin
5. Giri
6. Fabiano
7. Aronian
8. Kramnik
9. MVL
10. Carlsen I mean look at that face


Feb-16-17 john barleycorn: <offramp> I think the top10 in one tournament is either going to be exciting or the ultimate draw contest. I hope for the former. Karjakin or Carlsen may sort it out.

Feb-16-17 Fiona Macleod: A tournament like this is like a bunch of people having a contest on guessing which moves the best computers will make. The more hits, the better the chances of winning.

Feb-16-17 offramp: I thought it was wonderful when Rapport beat the great Carlsen at Wijk. It does happen! Often! But the youngsters have to be given the opportunity.

Feb-16-17 john barleycorn: let us not forget Ivanchuk.

Feb-16-17 keypusher: <offramp: I’d prefer it if the Norway tournament had 7 of the world’s top 10 and 5 lesser-ranked players, probably one other Norwegian player and four youngsters.>
I agree; that is why Tata is (usually) so good.


Feb-16-17 gopi11: When was the last time we have the top 10 current chess players in the world play each other in a tournament? Like never…
If we go by Jeff Sonas’ system of categorizing a tournament, this will be the strongest chess tournament of all time.

Check his system out -> https://en.chessbase.com/post/what-...


Feb-16-17 HeMateMe: MLV just doesn’t photograph well, not comfortable in front of the camera. That’s not his fault, just a bit shy.
Karjakin’s endorsement patch looks like something the Brown Shirts wore in Weimar Germany, Butt-ugly.


Feb-16-17 WorstPlayerEver: Hmm.. the foto on the site is quite embarrassing. As if the collage is made from the most stupid pics they could find.

Feb-16-17 offramp: It will be 9 rounds, and the winner will probably score 6½ or 7 points. The trouble is that if a player loses in the first round he would have to score <6½ or 7 out of 8> to win, against an unrelenting promenade of super-strong GMs. There are no weakies to target! It means that no one can risk an early loss.

Feb-16-17 WorstPlayerEver: Nope. Topalov isn’t playing.

Feb-16-17 perfidious: <offramp….the winner will probably score 6½ or 7 points…..>
My guess is that +3 will be enough, perhaps for even outright victory; it is hard to imagine anyone reeling off such a string of victories that they are likely to make +4 or +5 as you suggest, barring a run like that of Caruana at St Louis in 2014. We could watch one hundred such tournaments and never see the likes of that again.


Feb-16-17 beenthere240: In all fairness, not one of the contenders was picking his nose.

Feb-16-17 Sally Simpson: I get it. None of us know anything about this level of chess so we have resorted to picking out the best looking guy from
http://norwaychess.no/wp-content/up...

I felt a little uncomfortable with this, me being a guy an all, so I asked three girls at the office to pick the best looking one.

Two for Karjakin and one for MVL "who looks like the most fun to be with". (another commented that the guy in front looked a wee bit like Matt Damon. and another asked if Aronian was in some way deformed.)

I asked who was the ugliest and they agreed, actually they all are.

If any of you know any other females, then carry out your own tests, we could mark them and keep a tally and give them a best looking rating.


Feb-17-17 keypusher: <Two for Karjakin and one for MVL "who looks like the most fun to be with". >
Good for them! It’s such an unflattering picture of MVL, but he still comes across as appealingly geeky.


Feb-17-17 Imran Iskandar: So looks sunburned.

Feb-17-17 offramp: <Sally Simpson:… and another asked if Aronian was in some way deformed.)…>
I really hope that LeaveMe Alonian does not read that!

In 2016 he paid his last $150 to have Dr Renato Rodriguez in Tijuana remove a kilo and a half of assorted chitterlings and cartilage from his titanic sneezer.

He became selfie-obsessed and his results deteriorated owing to the ban on mobile phones.

If he found out that he had gone through that tremendous ordeal and that gals still thought he looked "deformed" then I dread to think of the damage to his already fragile psyche.


Feb-17-17 Sally Simpson: Hi Offramp,
I thought it was because the way camera caught him standing, he appears kind of odd, kind of twisted a bit.

Facially (to me anyway) he’s no different to the rest of them…compared to me they all plug ugly. Though they are all not too bad at chess.


Feb-17-17 zanzibar: <Sally> is it "plug ugly" or "pug ugly"?
And with, or without, a hyphen?

http://grammarist.com/usage/plug-ug...

Funny, you seem to be on the wrong side of the ocean on this one.


Feb-17-17 Sally Simpson: Plug Ugly as in ‘Plug’ from the Bash Street Kids. It’s a UK thing.
http://comicvine.gamespot.com/bash-...


Feb-17-17 zanzibar: According to the link I gave:
< The word plug-ugly is derived from the name of a Baltimore gang in the 1850s, the Plug Uglies. This gang took part in numerous politically-motivated riots during the 1850s and 1860s. It is believed that the Plug Uglies took their name from the plug hats that they wore. In popular slang of the day, plug was a term for a homely, average person, perhaps partially accounting for the term. >

And also:

<he Plug Uglies were a street gang operating out of Baltimore, Maryland in the 1850s. The notorious Know Nothing Riot, in which political and gang rivalries flared up into mob violence, took place in Baltimore in 1856. Gangs called the Rip Raps, the Know Nothings and the Plug Uglies fought pitched battles in the streets and these events were widely reported at the time. A contemporary newspaper report also puts the gang in Washington in the following year. The New York Daily Times, June 1857, printed a report from a correspondent in Washington:

A gang of organized desperate rowdies, some fifty in number, called the “Plug Uglies”, arrived here this morning from Baltimore, for the purpose of defeating the Democratic ticket and keeping naturalised citizens from the polls.>

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/...

Clearly the Plug Uglies were just concerned Republicans worried about voter fraud (follow-ups over to <Rogoff>!).


Feb-17-17 offramp: I’ll ask the players. Would you describe yourself as pug-ugly or just plug-ugly?

Feb-18-17 zanzibar: OK, fellow pugs, follow ups over in the cafe.

Feb-19-17 chessmoron: In today’s episode of "The Simpsons," Magnus Carlsen will appear as a voice cameo as himself.

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