User Profile: alexmagnus

Members · Prefs · Laboratory · Collections · Openings · Endgames · Sacrifices · History · Search Kibitzing · Kibitzer's Café · Chessforums · Tournament Index · Players ·

Kibitzing

alexmagnus
Member since Dec-06-04 · Last seen Oct-24-25

Hobby player.
If you feel misunderstood, feel free to say it.
My favourite players are: Magnus Carlsen, Kateryna Lagno and Hanna Marie Klek!
The domination list, based on the peak rating distance to the #10 player (official lists only, distance 50+ needed to "qualify"):
Kasparov 175 (January 1990)
Fischer 160 (July 1972)
Karpov 130 (January 1989)
Carlsen 123 (March 2014)
Kramnik 110 (January 1998)
Tal 105 (January 1980)
Ivanchuk 105 (July 1991)
Anand 105 (July 1998)
Korchnoi 95 (January 1980)
Topalov 84 (July 2006)
Caruana 80 (October 2014)
Aronian 72 (March 2014)
Spassky 70 (January 1971)
Shirov 65 (July 1994)
Ding 64 (Nov 2022, Dec 2022, Jan 2023)
Nakamura 62 (October 2025)
Gelfand 60 (January 1991)
Kamsky 60 (January 1996, July 1996)
Morozevich 57 (July 1999)
Portisch 55 (January 1980)
Jussupow 55 (July 1986)
Timman 55 (January 1990)
So 53 (February 2017)
Adams 52 (October 2000)
Mamedyarov 52 (November 2018, December 2018)
Erigaisi 51 (Dec 2024, Jan 2025, Feb 2025)
Bareev 50 (July 1991)
Vachier-Lagrave 50 (August 2016)
...
(Gukesh 43 October 2024)
#1 record distances to #2 (no qualification hurdle):
Fischer 125 (1972)
Kasparov 82 (January 2000)
Carlsen 74 (October 2013)
Karpov 65 (January 1982)
Topalov 34 (July 2006, October 2006)
Anand 23 (July 2007)
Women's "domination list" since July 2000:
J. Polgar 248 (April 2007)
Hou 160 (December 2015, February 2019)
Humpy 114 (October 2007)
Goryachkina 100 (August 2021)
S. Polgar 96 (January 2005)
Xie 92 (January 2005)
Ju 92 (August 2019)
A. Muzychuk 82 (August 2012)
Stefanova 76 (January 2003)
Galliamova 65 (January 2001)
Zhao 64 (September 2013)
Lei 60 (August 2025, September 2025)
Kosteniuk 58 (July 2006)
Lagno 58 (February 2019)
Chiburdanidze 57 (October 2000)
Cramling 56 (April 2007)
T. Kosintseva 56 (November 2010)
Zhu J. 56 (October 2025)
Zhu C. 52 (April 2007)
M. Muzychuk 52 (June 2019)
N. Kosintseva 51 (November 2010)
Earliest Soviet championship with living players: USSR Championship (1955) (Shcherbakov)
Earliest Interzonal with living players: Gothenburg Interzonal (1955) (Panno)
Earliest Candidates with living players: Amsterdam Candidates (1956) (Panno)
Earliest WC match with living players: Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978) (Karpov)
Earliest WC match with living winner: Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978) (Karpov)

Earliest WC match with both players living: Karpov - Kasparov World Championship Match (1984/85)

>> Click here to see alexmagnus's game collections.

   alexmagnus has kibitzed 11631 times to chessgames [more...]

   Oct-23-25 Daniel Naroditsky

alexmagnus: Whatever the cause of death, we've all seen that final stream. Even if his death turns out to be unrelated to Kramnik, it doesn't make Kramnik less of a bully.

   Oct-08-25 alexmagnus chessforum

alexmagnus: October: European Union: 1. Firouzja 2762 2. Giri 2759 3. Keymer 2755 4. Vachier-Lagrave 2737 5. Duda 2729 6. Rapport 2724 7. Fedoseev 2720 8. Topalov 2717 9. Van Foreest 2697 10. Bluebaum 2687 Former Soviet Union: 1. Abdusattorov 2750 2. Mamedyarov 2742

   Sep-15-25 FIDE Women's Grand Swiss (2025)

alexmagnus: <I think the women should play, say, nine rounds> Usually the formula for the optimal number of rounds in a Swiss system is the floor of the binary logarithm of the number of players plus three. So in this case it would be eight rounds in the women's section and nine in the

   Sep-11-25 FIDE Grand Swiss (2025)

alexmagnus: <When has a World Champion lost three games in a row? Kasparov lost to Karpov in the 1986 match, in a tournament surely never.> Ding lost four in a row one IIRC. And of course, when it comes to WC matches, Steinitz lost five in a row against in his match vs Lasker (games ...

   Aug-07-25 Vladimir Kramnik

alexmagnus: <Kramnik stated that he either was a cheater or the greatest talent in the history of chess.> Carlsen drew (and was close to winning) Kasparov in rapid at 13, while the latter was still world number 1. And I'm sure beat some top players in online blitz at that age too. ...

   Jul-28-25 Divya Deshmukh

alexmagnus: Divya's way to the World Cup: Qualified to the World Cup as the 2024 World Girl's Champion (with World Girls' championship itself being invitational). 2024 World Girl's Championship: R1: vs Anurpan (India, 1872), win R2: vs Sherali (India, 1955), win R3: vs Tejasvini ...

   Jul-28-25 FIDE Women's World Cup (2025)

alexmagnus: ...And Divya won. But before this recent form high she had quite a slump, so that she is still below her peak rating (her live rating is 2478, her peak official rating is 2501 in October 2024).

   Jul-18-25 Josiane Legendre

alexmagnus: Any relation to the 18th-19th century mathematician?

   May-31-25 M Christoffel vs H Steiner, 1946

alexmagnus: Christoffel symbol.

   May-15-25 Superbet Chess Classic Romania (2025)

alexmagnus: <There is nothing sacred or romantic about it.> It's a game, not a religion nor a love affair.

indicates a reply to the comment.

< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 17 OF 57 · Later Kibitzing>
Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 1992: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS : 2725 2 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS : 2670 3 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR : 2665 4 . Short,Nigel D ENG : 2630 5 . Anand,Viswanathan IND : 2615 6 . Gelfand,Boris BLR : 2610 7 . Kamsky,Gata USA : 2600 8 . Jussupow,Artur GER : 2600 9 . Salov,Valery RUS : 2600 10 . Shirov,Alexei ESP : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 1992: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS 2730 2 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR 2660 3 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS 2655 4 . Shirov,Alexei ESP 2650 5 . Anand,Viswanathan IND 2630 6 . Gelfand,Boris BLR 2625 7 . Short,Nigel.D ENG 2620 8 . Bareev,Evgeny RUS 2610 9 . Timman,Jan..H NED 2605

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 1993: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS : 2740 2 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS : 2660 3 . Anand,Viswanathan IND : 2645 4 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR : 2645 5 . Gelfand,Boris BLR : 2625 6 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS : 2620 7 . Shirov,Alexei ESP : 2605 8 . Bareev,Evgeny RUS : 2605

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 1993: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS 2750 2 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS 2695 3 . Anand,Viswanathan IND 2660 4 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS 2645 5 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR 2640 6 . Salov,Valery RUS 2620 7 . Shirov,Alexei ESP 2620 8 . Gelfand,Boris BLR 2605 9 . Topalov,Veselin BUL 2605 10 . Short,Nigel.D ENG 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 1994: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS : 2750 2 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS : 2675 3 . Anand,Viswanathan IND : 2650 4 . Shirov,Alexei ESP : 2650 5 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR : 2645 6 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS : 2645 7 . Kamsky,Gata USA : 2630 8 . Bareev,Evgeny RUS : 2620 9 . Gelfand,Boris BLR : 2620 10 . Salov,Valery RUS : 2620 11 . Epishin,Vladimir RUS : 2610 12 . Jussupow,Artur GER : 2600 13 . Short,Nigel D ENG : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 1994: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS 2740 2 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS 2705 3 . Shirov,Alexei ESP 2665 4 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS 2650 5 . Anand,Viswanathan IND 2645 6 . Salov,Valery RUS 2635 7 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR 2620 8. Kamsky,Gata USA 2620 9 . Gelfand,Boris BLR 2605 10 . Bareev,Evgeny RUS 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 1995: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS : 2720 2 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS : 2690 3 . Anand,Viswanathan IND : 2640 4 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS : 2640 5 . Salov,Valery RUS : 2640 6 . Kamsky,Gata USA : 2635 7 . Shirov,Alexei ESP : 2635 8 . Gelfand,Boris BLR : 2625 9 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR : 2625 10 . Bareev,Evgeny RUS : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 1995: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS 2715 2 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS 2695 3 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR 2660 4 . Kamsky,Gata USA 2655 5 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS 2650 6 . Anand,Viswanathan IND 2645 7 . Shirov,Alexei ESP 2615 8 . Gelfand,Boris BLR 2605 9 . Salov,Valery RUS 2605 10 . Jussupow,Artur GER 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 1996: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS : 2695 2 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS : 2695 3 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS : 2690 4 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR : 2655 5 . Kamsky,Gata USA : 2655 6 . Anand,Viswanathan IND : 2645 7 . Gelfand,Boris BLR : 2620 8 . Topalov,Veselin BUL : 2620 9 . Shirov,Alexei ESP : 2610

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 1996: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS 2705 2 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS 2695 3 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS 2685 4 . Anand,Viswanathan IND 2670 5 . Topalov,Veselin BUL 2670 6 . Kamsky,Gata USA 2665 7 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR 2650 8 . Short,Nigel.D ENG 2615 9 . Adams,Michael ENG 2605 10 . Shirov,Alexei ESP 2605

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 1997: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS : 2715 2 . Anand,Viswanathan IND : 2685 3 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS : 2680 4 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR : 2660 5 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS : 2660 6 . Topalov,Veselin BUL : 2645 7 . Kamsky,Gata USA : 2640 8 . Gelfand,Boris BLR : 2620 9 . Shirov,Alexei ESP : 2610 10 . Short,Nigel D ENG : 2610

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 1997: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS 2750 2 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS 2700 3 . Anand,Viswanathan IND 2695 4 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS 2675 5. Topalov,Veselin BUL 2675 6 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR 2655 7 . Kamsky,Gata USA 2650 8 . Shirov,Alexei ESP 2630 9 . Gelfand,Boris BLR 2625 10 . Adams,Michael ENG 2610 11 . Salov,Valery RUS 2610 12 . Bareev,Evgeny RUS 2600 13 . Georgiev,Kiril BUL 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 1998: 1 . Kasparov,Gary RUS : 2740 2 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS : 2705 3 . Anand,Viswanathan IND : 2685 4 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR : 2655 5 . Topalov,Veselin BUL : 2655 6 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS : 2650 7 . Kamsky,Gata USA : 2635 8 . Shirov,Alexei ESP : 2625 9 . Beliavsky,Alexander G SLO : 2605 10 . Svidler,Peter RUS : 2605

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 1998: 1. Kasparov,Gary RUS : 2725 2 . Anand,Viswanathan IND : 2705 3 . Kramnik,Vladimir RUS : 2690 4 . Ivanchuk,Vassily UKR : 2640 5 . Karpov,Anatoly RUS : 2635 6 . Kamsky,Gata USA : 2630 7. . Shirov,Alexei ESP : 2630 8 . Adams,Michael ENG : 2625 9 . Svidler,Peter RUS : 2620 10 . Topalov,Veselin BUL : 2610 11 . Bareev,Evgeny RUS : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 1999: 1 . Kasparov, Gary : 2725 2 . Anand, Viswanathan : 2694 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir : 2664 4 . Shirov, Alexei : 2639 5 . Morozevich, Alexander : 2636 6 . Adams, Michael : 2629 7 . Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2627 8 . Svidler, Peter : 2626 9 . Karpov, Anatoly : 2623 10 . Topalov, Veselin : 2613 11 . Short, Nigel : 2610 12 . Leko, Peter : 2607 13 . Gelfand, Boris : 2604

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 1999: 1 . Kasparov, Gary RUS : 2760 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2680 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2669 4 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2667 5 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2643 6 . Kamsky, Gata USA : 2629 7 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2622 8 . Karpov, Anatoly RUS : 2618 9 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2617 10 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2611 11 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2610 12 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2607

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 2000: 1 . Kasparov, Garry : 2764 2 . Anand, Viswanathan : 2682 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir : 2671 4 . Shirov, Alexei : 2664 5 . Morozevich, Alexander : 2661 6 . Leko, Peter : 2638 7 . Kamsky, Gata : 2630 8 . Adams, Michael : 2628 9 . Bareev, Evgeny : 2622 10 . Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2622 11 . Topalov, Veselin : 2615 12 . Karpov, Anatoly : 2609 13 . Gurevich, Mikhail : 2607 14 . Gelfand, Boris : 2605

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 2000: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2755 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2676 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2668 4 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2662 5 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2661 6 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2652 7 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2649 8 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2625 9 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2613 10 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2608 11 . Krasenkow, Michal POL : 2608 12 . Karpov, Anatoly RUS : 2605

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: October 2000: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2756 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2681 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2679 4 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2661 5 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2655 6 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2653 7 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2641 8 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2623 9 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2614 10 . Krasenkow, Michal POL : 2609 11 . Karpov, Anatoly RUS : 2606 12 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2602 13 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 2001: 1 . Kasparov, Gary : 2754 2 . Anand, Viswanathan : 2695 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir : 2677 4 . Adams, Michael : 2651 5 . Leko, Peter : 2650 6 . Morozevich, Alexander : 2650 7 . Shirov, Alexei : 2623 8 . Topalov, Veselin : 2623 9 . Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2622 10 . Gelfand, Boris : 2617 11 . Bareev, Evgeny : 2614 12 . Van Wely, Loek : 2605 13 . Svidler, Peter : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: April 2001: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2732 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2707 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2699 4 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2655 5 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2654 6 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2636 7 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2636 8 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2628 9 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2617 10 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2614 11 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2612 12 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 2001: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2740 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2704 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2699 4 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2646 5 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2641 6 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2633 7 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2632 8 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2621 9 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2616 10 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2613 11 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2608 12 . Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB : 2606 13 . Smirin, Ilia ISR : 2604 14 . Khalifman, Alexander RUS : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: October 2001: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2743 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2714 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2675 4 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2647 5 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2644 6 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2638 7 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2636 8 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2636 9 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2624 10 . Van Wely, Loek NED : 2619 11 . Kasimdzhanov, Rustam UZB : 2611 12 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2611 13 . Khalifman, Alexander RUS : 2607 14 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2606 15 . Smirin, Ilia ISR : 2603

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 2002: 1 . Kasparov, Garry : 2742 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir : 2713 3 . Anand, Viswanathan : 2661 4 . Adams, Michael : 2646 5 . Morozevich, Alexander : 2646 6 . Topalov, Veselin : 2643 7 . Ponomariov, Ruslan : 2631 8 . Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2621 9 . Shirov, Alexei : 2619 10 . Leko, Peter : 2617 11 . Gelfand, Boris : 2612 12 . Bareev, Evgeny : 2611 13 . Smirin, Ilia : 2606 14 . Van Wely, Loek : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: April 2002: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2740 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2711 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2654 4 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2647 5 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2646 6 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2645 7 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2626 8 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2620 9 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2613 10 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2612 11 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2609 12 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2606 13 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2604 14 . Khalifman, Alexander RUS : 2600

Jump to page # (enter # from 1 to 57)
search thread:
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 17 OF 57 · Later Kibitzing>

NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion.

Please observe our posting guidelines:

No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language.
No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts.
No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members.
Nothing in violation of United States law.
No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members.
No trolling.
The use of "sock puppet" accounts to circumvent disciplinary action taken by moderators, create a false impression of consensus or support, or stage conversations, is prohibited.
Do not degrade Chessgames or any of it's staff/volunteers.

Please try to maintain a semblance of civility at all times.

See something that violates our rules? Blow the whistle and inform a moderator.

NOTE: Please keep all discussion on-topic. This forum is for this specific user only. To discuss chess or this site in general, visit the Kibitzer's Café.

Messages posted by Chessgames members do not necessarily represent the views of Chessgames.com, its employees, or sponsors.
All moderator actions taken are ultimately at the sole discretion of the administration.

You are not logged in to chessgames.com.
If you need an account, register now;
it's quick, anonymous, and free!
If you already have an account, click here to sign-in.