Chess star Magnus Carlsen, the youngest player to ever top the International Chess Federation (FIDE) rankings, has ventured into modelling.

Norway's public broadcaster NRK on Wednesday posted snapshots and a video on its website of the brown haired teen at a fashion shoot for Dutch fashion brand G-Star Raw alongside US actress Liv Tyler. Black-and-white ads featuring the 19-year-old prodigy and stamped with the brand's name and logo were also posted on the broadcaster's website. Magnus Carlsen told NRK he was not a fashion connoisseur, in any case not before starting to model for the jeans company.

"I think people will be surprised to see me like this. Surely just as surprise as I was when I was picked for this," he said.

Pictures of the fashion shoot can be seen at http://www.nrksport.no/sjakk/1.7200856