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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)

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   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.

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Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 2002: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2738 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2707 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2655 4 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2652 5 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2645 6 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2643 7 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2626 8 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2622 9 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2616 10 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2611 11 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2610 12 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2602

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: October 2002: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2735 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2708 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2654 4 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2644 5 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2642 6 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2642 7 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2642 8 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2636 9 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2608 10 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2606 11 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2603 12 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 2003: 1 . Kasparov, Garry : 2749 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir : 2711 3 . Anand, Viswanathan : 2655 4 . Topalov, Veselin : 2645 5 . Leko, Peter : 2638 6 . Adams, Michael : 2636 7 . Ponomariov, Ruslan : 2636 8 . Bareev, Evgeny : 2631 9 . Shirov, Alexei : 2625 10 . Grischuk, Alexander : 2614 11 . Akopian, Vladimir : 2605 12 . Khalifman, Alexander : 2604 13 . Gelfand, Boris : 2602 14 . Polgar, Judit : 2602 15 . Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: April 2003: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2730 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2689 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2664 4 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2646 5 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2635 . . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2635 7 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2634 8 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2623 9 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2618 10 . Polgar, Judit (GM) HUN : 2615 11 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2613 12 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2604 13 . Akopian, Vladimir ARM : 2603 14 . Khalifman, Alexander RUS : 2602 15 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2601 16 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 2003: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2724 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2679 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2668 4 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2633 5 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2629 6 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2626 7 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2626 8 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2617 9 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2615 10 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2613 11 . Polgar, Judit (GM) HUN : 2612 12 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2612 13 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2604

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: October 2003: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2725 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2672 3 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2661 4 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2634 5 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2632 6 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2630 7 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2627 8 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2620 9 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2618 10 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2617 11 . Polgar, Judit HUN : 2617 12 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2613 13 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2605 14 . Dreev, Alexey RUS : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 2004: 1 . Kasparov, Garry : 2725 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir : 2671 3 . Anand, Viswanathan : 2660 4 . Svidler, Peter : 2641 5 . Shirov, Alexei : 2630 6 . Topalov, Veselin : 2629 7 . Morozevich, Alexander : 2626 8 . Polgar, Judit : 2622 9 . Leko, Peter : 2616 10 . Ponomariov, Ruslan : 2616 11 . Adams, Michael : 2614 12 . Grischuk, Alexander : 2613 13 . Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2610 14 . Bareev, Evgeny : 2608 15 . Gelfand, Boris : 2603 16 . Sokolov, Ivan : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: April 2004: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2711 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2668 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2658 4 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2635 5 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2631 6 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2627 7 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2626 8 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2625 9 . Polgar, Judit HUN : 2622 10 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2616 11 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2613 12 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2610 13 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2608 14 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2607 15 . Short, Nigel D. ENG : 2606 16 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2605

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 2004: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2706 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2671 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2669 4 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2632 5 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2630 6 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2627 7 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2626 8 . Polgar, Judit HUN : 2617 9 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2616 10 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2614 11 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2611 12 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2604 13 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2604 14 . Bacrot, Etienne FRA : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: October 2004: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2702 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2670 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2649 4 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2647 5 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2646 6 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2632 7 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2629 8 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2626 9 . Polgar, Judit HUN : 2617 10 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2615 11 . Bacrot, Etienne FRA : 2607 12 . Bareev, Evgeny RUS : 2604

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 2005: 1 . Kasparov, Garry : 2698 2 . Anand, Viswanathan : 2680 3 . Topalov, Veselin : 2651 4 . Kramnik, Vladimir : 2648 5 . Leko, Peter : 2643 6 . Adams, Michael : 2635 7 . Morozevich, Alexander : 2635 8 . Svidler, Peter : 2629 9 . Bacrot, Etienne : 2609 10 . Shirov, Alexei : 2607 11 . Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2605 12 . Grischuk, Alexander : 2604 13 . Bareev, Evgeny : 2603

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: April 2005: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2697 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2670 3 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2663 4 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2648 5 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2638 6 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2624 7 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2622 8 . Polgar, Judit HUN : 2620 9 . Bacrot, Etienne FRA : 2616 10 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2610 11 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2609 12 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2602

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 2005: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2697 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2673 3 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2673 4 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2648 5 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2637 6 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2629 7 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2623 8 . Polgar, Judit HUN : 2620 9 . Bacrot, Etienne FRA : 2614 10 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2609 11 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2609 12 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2605 13 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2604

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: October 2005: 1 . Kasparov, Garry RUS : 2696 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2672 3 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2666 4 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2635 5 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2632 6 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2626 7 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2623 8 . Polgar, Judit HUN : 2619 9 . Bacrot, Etienne FRA : 2609 10 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2608 11 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2604 12 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2602 13 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 2006: 1 . Kasparov, Garry : 2694 2 . Topalov, Veselin : 2682 3 . Anand, Viswanathan : 2674 4 . Svidler, Peter : 2647 5 . Aronian, Levon : 2634 6 . Kramnik, Vladimir : 2623 7 . Leko, Peter : 2622 8 . Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2611 9 . Gelfand, Boris : 2605 10 . Ponomariov, Ruslan : 2605 11 . Morozevich, Alexander : 2603

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: April 2006: 1 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2688 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2687 3 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2640 4 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2627 5 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2622 6 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2622 7 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2615 8 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2614 9 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2613 10 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2611 11 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2604 12 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2603 13 . Radjabov, Teimour AZE : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 2006: 1 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2694 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2660 3 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2642 4 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2624 5 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2623 6 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2619 7 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2615 8 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2613 9 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2612 10 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2610 11 . Radjabov, Teimour AZE : 2609 12 . Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE : 2603 13 . Ponomariov, Ruslan UKR : 2602 14 . Navara, David CZE : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: October 2006: 1 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2693 2 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2659 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2630 4 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2630 5 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2627 6 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2621 7 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2621 8 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2621 9 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2615 10 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2613 11 . Radjabov, Teimour AZE : 2609 12 . Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE : 2608 13 . Navara, David CZE : 2605 14 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 2007: 1 . Topalov, Veselin : 2664 2 . Anand, Viswanathan : 2660 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir : 2647 4 . Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar : 2635 5 . Ivanchuk, Vassily : 2631 6 . Leko, Peter : 2630 7 . Aronian, Levon : 2625 8 . Morozevich, Alexander : 2622 9 . Adams, Michael : 2616 10 . Gelfand, Boris : 2614 11 . Radjabov, Teimour : 2610 12 . Svidler, Peter : 2609 13 . Polgar, Judit : 2608 14 . Ponomariov, Ruslan : 2604 15 . Navara, David : 2600

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: April 2007: 1 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2664 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2650 3 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2650 4 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2640 5 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2637 6 . Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE : 2635 7 . Radjabov, Teimour AZE : 2625 8 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2616 9 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2614 10 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2612 11 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2611 12 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2607 13 . Polgar, Judit HUN : 2605

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 2007: 1 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2668 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2645 3 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2645 4 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2638 5 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2634 6 . Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE : 2633 7 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2627 8 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2626 9 . Radjabov, Teimour AZE : 2622 10 . Jakovenko, Dmitry RUS : 2611 11 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2611 12 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2611 13 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2609 14 . Grischuk, Alexander RUS : 2602 15 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: October 2007: 1 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2674 2 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2660 3 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2658 4 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2642 5 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2628 6 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2628 7 . Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE : 2625 8 . Radjabov, Teimour AZE : 2615 9 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2614 10 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2612 11 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2609 12 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2605 13 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2602

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: January 2008: 1 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2672 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2672 3 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2653 4 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2638 5 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2636 6 . Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE : 2632 7 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2528 8 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2626 9 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2624 10 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2612 11 . Gelfand, Boris ISR : 2610 12 . Radjabov, Teimour AZE : 2608 13 . Carlsen, Magnus NOR : 2606 14 . Karjakin, Sergey UKR : 2605

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: April 2008: 1 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2675 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2660 3 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2646 4 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2639 5 . Carlsen, Magnus NOR : 2637 6 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2635 7 . Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE : 2624 8 . Radjabov, Teimour AZE : 2623 9 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2618 10 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2613 11 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2612 12 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2612 13 . Karjakin, Sergey UKR : 2604 14 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2601

Sep-10-09		alexmagnus: July 2008: 1 . Anand, Viswanathan IND : 2667 2 . Kramnik, Vladimir RUS : 2657 3 . Morozevich, Alexander RUS : 2657 4 . Ivanchuk, Vassily UKR : 2650 5 . Topalov, Veselin BUL : 2646 6 . Carlsen, Magnus NOR : 2644 7 . Radjabov, Teimour AZE : 2613 8 . Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar AZE : 2611 9 . Leko, Peter HUN : 2610 10 . Shirov, Alexei ESP : 2610 11 . Svidler, Peter RUS : 2607 12 . Aronian, Levon ARM : 2606 13 . Adams, Michael ENG : 2604

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