‘Mozart of Chess’ ready to make move against US challenger in $1m contest

Champion Magnus Carlsen became a grandmaster at 13 and has held the world title since 2013, having shown an almost otherworldly ability for chess that once saw him play 10 people at once and beating them, writes Dan Buckley

Chess aficionados in New York still salivate over the moment a Brooklyn-bred grandmaster, Robert James Fischer, stunned the world champion Boris Spassky and took his title in 1972.