I am glad to be married to someone who has beaten a future world champion! - Grandmaster Arthur Kogan on his wife’s defeat of 10-year-old Magnus Carlsen in 2001 Quite aptly the beginning of Chapter 3 ...

While Carlsen was initiated into chess by his father Henrik, his personal trainers Simen and Torbjoern took over thereafter, nurturing his aptitude for the sport. He could recall almost everything ...

World champion Magnus Carlsen may be Norway’s most famous chess player, but there’s someone else in that Nordic country whose achievements are no less remarkable. Simen Agdestein may be the only ...

It’s going to be the athlete meeting the scientist or scholar of chess, says Grandmaster Simen Agdestein, World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen‘s former chess coach. And, GM Agdestein is not too sure who’s going ...

A world record for the biggest chess board was set in the town of Brekstad in Norway’s Sør-Trøndelag region on Sunday. The board, measuring at 6,400 square metres, hosted a match between Norwegian ...

Grandmaster Simen Agdestein is a former Norwegian soccer star, who turned into a wonderful chess coach. He wrote a fascinating book about his famous pupil called "Wonderboy," subtitled "How Magnus ...

Teacher and pupil must battle it out again at the 2006 Norwegian Champioship as the prodigy Magnus Carlsen and former international footballer and Grandmaster Simen Agdestein shared first place on 7/9 ...

Teacher narrowly prevailed over pupil as the teenage prodigy Magnus Carlsen and Simen Agdestein fought an eight game playoff over two days to decide the Norwegian championship. The pair had tied for ...

Mumbai: Nigel Short has found out what girls can do in chess. The British Grandmaster had recently said that women are not great chess players, but a six-year-old girl provided a fitting reply by ...