{"id":2006,"date":"2014-11-29T23:55:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T23:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2014-11-30T01:27:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T01:27:39","slug":"the-king-of-chess-speaks-norwegian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/norwegian\/the-king-of-chess-speaks-norwegian\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of Chess Speaks Norwegian!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Lee Daniel Crocker (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>Sjakkmatt!<\/b> [shakk-matt] (Checkmate!) \u2013 Maybe you\u2019re like me: Having heard that word too many times, I\u2019ve somehow forgotten the existence of sjakk<\/b> (chess)\u2026 (You know, the boardgame with 64 black and white squares and a bunch of black and white figures\u2026)<\/p>\n

Noen mennesker<\/b> (some people), however, elsker \u00e5 ta et slag sjakk<\/b> (love playing a game of chess). En liten gruppe<\/b> (a small group) of people are even extraterrestrially skilled at moving their bonde<\/b> (pawn), springer <\/b>(knight), l\u00f8per <\/b>(bishop), t\u00e5rn <\/b>(rook), dronning <\/b>(queen) <\/b>or konge <\/b>(king) across sjakkbrettet<\/strong> (the chess board). Guess who\u2019s the verdensmester<\/b> (World Champion) of chess? Since this is the Norwegian blog, it\u2019s of course a Norwegian: 24 years old (!) Magnus Carlsen from T\u00f8nsberg.<\/p>\n

Chess may not be quite as watchable as skiing, but this month Norwegian journalists once again<\/a> hurried to Sotji i Russland<\/b> (Sochi in Russia) to cover verdensmesterskapet i sjakk 2014<\/b> (the world championship of chess 2014). I femten dager<\/b> (for fifteen days!), Carlsen defended his 2013 title as verdensmester<\/b> against 44 years old Viswanathan Anand from India. On November 23rd<\/sup>, after 11 omganger <\/b>(matches), Carlsen was declared vinner<\/b> (winner).<\/p>\n

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Magnus Carlsen making a move. Thanks to Intel Free Press at Flickr<\/a> (Creative Commons).<\/p><\/div>\n

I hardly know anything about chess as a sport, and would be surprised if a majority of Norwegians did! \ud83d\ude42 Nevertheless, Norwegian news outlets have been very busy telling every nordmann<\/b> (Norwegian) that a landsmann<\/b> (fellow Norwegian) has brought \u00e6re <\/b>(honour) to the nation! Carlsen was even portrayed and called sjakkhelten<\/b> (the chess hero) by Se og H\u00f8r<\/b> (\u201dLook and Listen\u201d), the most trashy gossip mag you\u2019ll ever find in Norwegian!<\/p>\n

When Carlsen bet Anand in 2013, the Norwegian geni<\/b> [shehNEE] (genious) was only 22 years old. So, if you want to snatch pokalen<\/b> (the trophy) from Carlsen, you\u2019d better invite a friend and get down to that board! Husk at \u00f8velse gj\u00f8r mester!<\/b> (Remember that practice makes perfect!)<\/p>\n

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Here you can see some photos of Carlsen and Anand being greeted by Vladimir Putin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here there\u2019s a fun video of actor Gbenga Akinnagbe going to Sochi<\/a> to look at the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Sjakkmatt! [shakk-matt] (Checkmate!) \u2013 Maybe you\u2019re like me: Having heard that word too many times, I\u2019ve somehow forgotten the existence of sjakk (chess)\u2026 (You know, the boardgame with 64 black and white squares and a bunch of black and white figures\u2026) Noen mennesker (some people), however, elsker \u00e5 ta et slag sjakk (love playing a…<\/p>\n

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