Magnus Carlsen on beating Garry Kasparov’s rating record

On Saturday, December 8th Magnus Carlsen broke Garry Kasparov’s chess rating record of 2851. By drawing with Hikaru Nakamura at the London Chess Classic, the Norwegian player will be certain of an Elo of at least 2856 on the January 1 FIDE rating list. In this video Carlsen talks about the game and about breaking the record.
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