The Carlsen Saga

What a long, strange trip it's been. Almost a year ago I assembled a collection of GM Carlsen's games with the idea of studying his opening repertoire.

• 2012-10-09: A Magnus Carlsen Game Collection
• 2012-10-11: Carlsen Plays Everything

Later I used that game collection to create a Tournament, Match, and Exhibition Record (TMER).

• 2013-02-04: Carlsen TMER Index
• 2013-02-11: TMER PGN
• 2013-02-18: TMER TWIC Refs • 2008-2012, 2004-2007, 2001-2003

Around the same time Carlsen won the London Candidates Tournament, giving him the right to challenge GM Anand for the World Championship.

• 2013-04-01: Congratulations to GM Carlsen!

Meanwhile I started to incorporate the record from GM Agdestein's biography of Carlsen into the TMER.

• 2013-03-25: 'Wonderboy' 2000-2001, 2002, 2003-2004
• 2013-04-29: Comparing 'Wonderboy' with TMER
• 2013-05-06: More Early Carlsen

Then I used some background material on the Norwegian GM.

• 2013-05-13: Carlsen on Confidence
• 2013-05-20: Working with Wonderboy

This was followed by more work on the game collection.

• 2013-05-27: Comparing Carlsen's Early PGN
• 2013-06-24: More Carlsen Games and Even More Carlsen Games
• 2013-07-08: Carlsen Games 2013 ['first update since I released the collection'] and Early Carlsen Games

After all this work I tried to tackle the most important question: 'What makes him so good?'

• 2013-07-22: The Carlsen Question
• 2013-07-29: Magnus Carlsen Interviews
• 2013-07-30: Friendly Chess Players
• 2013-08-05: Magnus Carlsen Video Interviews
• 2013-08-12: Wonderboy Returns
• 2013-08-19: Carlsen Analyzes His Games
• 2013-08-26: The Carlsens @ Corus 2008

QED? Not by a long shot...