Magnus Carlsen wins world chess championship [View all]

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Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen become the 16th world champion in a line running back 127 years earlier today when he drew the tenth game of a match against titleholder Viswanthan Anand in Anand's home town of Chennai, Tamu Nadu, India.

The match was scheduled for 12 rounds with the winner needing 6½ points to claim victory. Magnus had won three games without a loss going into today's game. The game went 65 moves when Anand offered Magnus a draw, giving the Norwegian the required sum of points to end the match.

Magnus becomes the youngest world champion in the history of the game. He turns 23 on November 30. He also does work as a fashion model and was voted one of the 25 sexiest men for 2013 by Cosmopolitan magazine.

The first match for the world chess title was between Wilhelm Steinitz, a native of Prague who lived at various times in life in Vienna, London and New York City, and Johannes Hermann Zukertort, a German master, in several American cities in 1886. Steinitz, who was also a seminal theoretician of the game, and Zukertort were considered by most at the time the two strongest players in the world. The match was won by Steinitz.