Description
The World Champion's Story — Told in Over 200 Stunning Photos.
No games. No annotations. Just Magnus — the man, the champion, the phenomenon — captured in more than 200 photographs from across his extraordinary life.
From a prodigy in Oslo to the highest-rated player in chess history, Magnus Carlsen: A Life in Pictures tells the story of a World Champion through the lens of the world's finest chess photographers, including Lennart Ootes, David Llada, Alina l'Ami, and Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam.
What's Inside:
- Rare images from the Carlsen family archive — never before published
- Magnus the competitor, the family man, the sports fanatic, and the celebrity
- His journey from Grandmaster at 13 to five-time World Champion
- Text by GM Jonathan Tisdall
- Hardcover, 160 pages, full colour — New In Chess
A beautiful gift for any chess fan — and a collector's piece for anyone who has followed Carlsen's career.
The champion in pictures. A book unlike any other chess book.