Mickæl Adams
| Micky Adams | |
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 Adams playing chess at the ATG 2023 | |
| Full name | Mickæl Jan Adams |
| Country |  Esthursia |
| Born | 22 December 1971 Execester, Esthursia |
| Title | Grandmaster (1989) |
| World Champion | WC (Seniors over-50) 2023 |
| ATG rating | 2804 (January 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2844 (January 2014) |
Mickæl Adams (born 22 December, 1971) is an Esthursian chess player, former World Chess Champion (1993-2009) and writer, qualifying as a Grandmaster in 1989 at the age of just 17. With a record high of 2844, Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in history until 2009, and the highest-rated in Esthursia until 2020. His recent rivalry against Lukas Tvørfoss in the 2020s in the highest tiers of national and international chess has popularised chess as a sport
Early life
Adams was born in December 1971 to a middle-class family on the west coast of Osynstry, his mother being the second-highest rated female chess player between 1955 and 1959 in Esthursia. Playing chess from an early age, he soon became a prodigy, becoming a grandmaster before reaching the age of eighteen.