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alexmagnus
Member since Dec-06-04 · Last seen Jan-16-26
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)
Zhu J. 77 (December 2025, January 2026)
Stefanova 76 (January 2003)
Lei 67 (December 2025, January 2026)
Galliamova 65 (January 2001)
Zhao 64 (September 2013)
Kosteniuk 58 (July 2006)
Lagno 58 (February 2019)
Chiburdanidze 57 (October 2000)
Cramling 56 (April 2007)
T. Kosintseva 56 (November 2010)
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)
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   alexmagnus has kibitzed 11707 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Jan-02-26 alexmagnus chessforum
 
alexmagnus: <2. Murzin 252> 2652 of course :D
 
   Dec-12-25 Yifan Hou
 
alexmagnus: I wonder if she still believes there was some conspiracy against her back in that Gibraltar tournament. A question I wouldn't dare to ask her in such a public AMA but that I'd really like to know the answer to. Now, after all the years that passed sice the controversy...
 
   Dec-12-25 Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus
 
alexmagnus: <Highest-rated 12-year-old ever> Btw, you know who held that record before Erdogmus broke it? Judit Polgar. All the way since 1989.
 
   Dec-05-25 Vachier-Lagrave - Erdogmus (2025) (replies)
 
alexmagnus: <What ever happened to 60 years old Smyslov and Korchnoi being world top 20 dynamos?> Both were consequences of what I refer to as <Fischer gap>.
 
   Nov-30-25 FIDE World Cup (2025) (replies)
 
alexmagnus: o complete the statistics, here Sindarov's way to winning this World Cup. Qualified: by rating R1: bye R2: 1.5-0.5 vs Petrov R3: 1.5-0.5 vs Theorodrou R4: 1-1 vs Yu, rapid 1.5-0.5 R5: 1.5-0.5 vs F. Svane QF: 1-1 vs Martinez, rapid 1-1, quick rapid 1.5-0.5 SF: 1-1 vs ...
 
   Nov-24-25 Wei Yi vs A Esipenko, 2025 (replies)
 
alexmagnus: <If Esipenko doesn't win the third-place match to get into the Candidates, this blunder could haunt him for the rest of his life. I hope he makes it; he played very well in the match against Wei Yi, all things considered. He also missed the Candidates by a whisker in the 2023 ...
 
   Oct-27-25 Vladimir Kramnik (replies)
 
alexmagnus: The worst thing to me in the whole debate is Kramnik claiming he showed concern for Naroditsky's health during the latter's final stream. Concern? It was pure <mockery>. If this is the way VK expresses concern, I don't want anyone, ever, to have an emergency with only ...
 
   Oct-23-25 Daniel Naroditsky (replies)
 
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.
 
   Sep-15-25 FIDE Women's Grand Swiss (2025) (replies)
 
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) (replies)
 
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 ...
 
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Sep-10-09
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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
Premium Chessgames Member		  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

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