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Sep-18-13
 | | alexmagnus: How do you come to 76? On the live list he is 74 points ahead of Kramnik. And I don't see any event for either of them which will be rated later than October. |
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| Sep-18-13 | | Kinghunt: <alexmagnus> I can't do math. Also, please continue with your alternate tracing of the world championship title, I find it very interesting. What are you planning on doing with Alekhine/Fischer, who (likely) held the title when they quit/died? |
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Sep-18-13
| | alexmagnus: <Kinghint> I'll look at it but now I'm stuck in 1919 :D. As for Alekhine/Fischer - we'll see if it actually happens. After all, up to 1919 both Steinitz and Lasker came quite short :). But at least both appeared on the scene. |
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Sep-18-13
| | alexmagnus: But <if> it appears the "titleholder" dies, I guess the title will get to the previous holder. Considering the fact how often the title changes hands, don't think it would be much of a problem :) |
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| Sep-21-13 | | Kinghunt: This may be helpful in tracing 1919 games: Game Collection: Hastings 1919 |
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Sep-22-13
| | alexmagnus: Won't help, as the current "titleholder" is Reti, and he didn't play at Hastings. |
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| Oct-30-13 | | whiteshark: newsflash 4u: HMK beats Igor Khenkin today: http://www.chess-international.de/?... :D |
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Oct-30-13
| | alexmagnus: Thank you <whteshark>. I hardly followed the OIBM for the reason that they have no live games, nice to see this result. What a win! And what a game!!! |
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| Nov-01-13 | | Billy Vaughan: Alexmagnus, I think I have a correction for your list of greatest distance to #10. Olimpbase gives Kramnik as having 2790 on January '98 with tenth ranked Svidler/Beliavsky at 2690, a difference of 100, not 110. |
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Nov-01-13
| | alexmagnus: I used the lists from the now closed schachchronik site which, according to the owner himself, used olympbasr as a source, so this is really strange. |
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| Nov-08-13 | | Billy Vaughan: I figured out what it was. Olimpbase still lists the inactive Kamsky in the top ten, whereas Schachchronik doesn't. |
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Dec-25-13
| | alexmagnus: Thank you <KKDEREK>, you too! |
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Dec-26-13
| | alexmagnus: World Champions beating World Champions (not necessarily reigning ones): Steinitz: 8 wins against Lasker. Total: 8.
Lasker: 26 against Steinitz, 2 against Capablanca, 3 against Alekhine, 3 against Euwe. Total: 34. Capablanca: 6 against Lasker, 9 against Alekhine, 4 against Euwe, 1 against Botvinnik. Total: 20. Alekhine: 1 against Lasker, 7 against Capablanca, 28 against Euwe. Total: 36. Euwe: 1 against Capablanca, 20 against Alekhine, 2 against Botvinnik, 1 against Smyslov, 1 against Fischer. Total: 25. Botvinnik: 1 against Lasker, 1 against Capablanca, 1 against Alekhine, 2 against Euwe, 29 against Smyslov, 12 against Tal, 4 against Petrosian, 1 against Spassky. Total: 51. Smyslov: 7 against Euwe, 24 against Botvinnik, 4 against Tal, 6 against Petrosian, 3 against Spassky, 1 against Fischer, 1 against Karpov, 1 against Kasparov. Total: 47. Tal: 12 against Botvinnik, 3 against Smyslov, 4 against Petrosian, 7 against Spassky, 4 against Fischer. Total: 30. Petrosian: 1 against Euwe, 7 against Botvinnik, 4 against Smyslov, 5 against Tal, 10 against Spassky, 4 against Fischer, 1 against Karpov, 2 against Kasparov. Total: 34. Spassky: 5 against Smyslov, 9 against Tal, 11 against Petrosian, 11 against Fischer, 2 against Karpov, 2 against Kasparov. Total: 40. Fischer: 1 against Euwe, 3 against Smyslov, 2 against Tal, 8 against Petrosian, 17 against Spassky. Total: 31. Karpov: 3 against Smyslov, 1 against Tal, 1 against Petrosian, 14 against Spassky, 21 against Kasparov, 3 against Kramnik, 5 against Anand. Total: 48. Kasparov: 6 against Smyslov, 2 against Tal, 2 against Petrosian, 2 against Spassky, 28 against Karpov, 4 against Kramnik, 16 against Anand. Total: 60. Kramnik: 2 against Karpov, 5 against Kasparov, 8 against Anand, 4 against Carlsen. Total: 19. Anand: 1 against Tal, 1 against Spassky, 11 against Karpov, 5 against Kasparov, 10 against Kramnik, 6 against Carlsen. Total: 34. Carlsen: 4 against Kramnik, 6 against Anand. Total: 10. |
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Jan-11-14
| | alexmagnus: Just noticed Karpov is the oldest living player with a peak rating over 2700... Making kind of a collection of all "oldest living" players and the history of each of these "titles". So far oldest living: GM: Averbakh (last change of hands: 2010, death of Lilienthal). World Champion: Spassky (last change of hands: 2010, death of Smyslov) Peak-2700: Karpov (last change of hands: 2008, death of Fischer). Peak-2800: Kasparov (last change of hands: 1990, Kasparov becoming first 2800 player ever). |
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Jan-11-14
| | alexmagnus: History of each "oldest living" title...
...GM (including honorary grandmasters, since old 1950 GMs were partly "honorary"): 1950: first GM titles are awarded. Oldest of them: Mieses. 1954: Mieses dies, new oldest living GM is Bernstein. 1962: Bernstein dies, Kostic (born 1887) is the new oldest living GM 1963: Kostic dies, new oldest living GM: Sämisch
1975: Sämisch dies, new oldest living GM: Euwe
1977: Canal, who is five years older than Euwe, gets awarded the GM title. February 1981: Canal dies, Euwe oldest living GM again. November 1981: Euwe dies, new oldest living GM: Kashdan. 1983: Lundin, a year older than Kashdan, gets awarded the GM title. 1985: Monticelli, two years older than Lundin, gets awareded the GM title. 1995: Monticelli dies, new oldest living GM: Koltanowski. 2000: Koltanowski dies, new oldest living GM: Paoli.
2005: Paoli dies, new oldest living GM: Lilienthal
2010: Lilienthal dies, new oldest living GM: Averbakh. ...World Champion:
1886: First official World Championship Match gets won by Steinitz. 1900: Steinitz dies, the only living World Champion is Lasker. 1941: Lasker dies, new oldest living WC: Capablanca
1942: Capablanca dies, new oldest living WC: Alekhine 1946: Alekhine dies, the only living WC is Euwe. 1946-48 is so far the last time only one world champ is alive. 1981: Euwe dies, new oldest living WC: Botvinnik.
1995: Botvinnik dies, new oldest living WC: Smyslov
2010: Smyslov dies, new oldest living WC: Spassky.
...Peak-2700:
1971: Elo ratings get introduced, Fischer is the only, and thereby oldest living, 2700+. 1980: Tal, who is seven years older than Fischer gets over 2700. 1992: Tal dies, the oldest living peak-2700 title gets back to Fischer 2008: Fischer dies, new oldest living peak-2700: Karpov. ...Peak-2800:
1990: Kasparov becomes first 2800 player ever. Since then nobody born before him got over 2800. |
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| Jan-15-14 | | MarkFinan: I just read your profile and your forum page, and I see you're the statistics guy around here. It's interesting to me but I also think it's just too hard to judge and compare chess players from different eras. I see you make a good go of it though. I think it's hard for people like me to judge who was strongest because I'm not qualified to. I can give my opinions, but I can't be a *good* judge because I don't understand chess like the players themselves! So my opinion is Kasparov is the greatest ever, with the very real possiblity of Carlsen overtaking him before his career is over. I guess there's a good case for Fischer too. But I do disagree strongly that there's someone out there who has never played the game that could beat either of them! ✌ |
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| Jan-31-14 | | twinlark: <alexmagnus>
Why did the schachkronik site close? It was a superb resource. It's true that olimpbase provides similar information, but the graphs and tables in SK were excellent. It's closure followed what seemed to be some extensive hacking attacks. Do you know anything more? |
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Feb-01-14
| | alexmagnus: <twinlark> I don't know but I can contact the owner of you wish. I don't know him personally but had some correspondence with him in one of those heated rating inflation debates :D |
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| Feb-01-14 | | twinlark: <alexmagnus>
Could you ask him if the information and graphics from that site are still available? His site was an invaluable research tool. |
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| Feb-02-14 | | GREYSTRIPE: To find a window in a room without a door or opening of any kind do not walk to Tallahassee and find a friend to agree with your assessment that you were right all along when you said 'I am the greatest thinker in the room.'.
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Mar-07-14
| | alexmagnus: Just beat <age 10> on the PlayMagnus app. Age 11 next :D |
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Mar-07-14
| | alexmagnus: Took me like 20 games. |
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Apr-21-14
| | alexmagnus: I once had a joking tracing of the WC title if the WC changed by winning one tournament game against the curent titleholder, starting with Steinitz. Undofrtunately, I got stuck in 1919 due to missing dates. Now attempting to do the same starting with Anand winning Mexico: 2008:
Anand lost to Radjabov on January 12, 2008 Radjabov vs Anand, 2008 Radjabov lost to Aronian on January 19, 2008 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/nph-... Aronian lost to Topalov on February 15, 2008 Topalov vs Aronian, 2008 Topalov lost to Shirov on February 19, 2008
Shirov lost to Anand on February 28, 2008 Anand vs Shirov, 2008 Anand lost to Vallejo Pons on May 30, 2008 Vallejo-Pons vs Anand, 2008 Vallejo Pons lost to Anand, apparently on the same day (maybe a faulty dated PGN, round number counted)Vallejo-Pons vs Anand, 2008 Anand lost to Topalov on September 5, 2008 Topalov vs Anand, 2008 Topalov lost to Aronian on September 9, 2008 Aronian vs Topalov, 2008 Aronian lost to Radjabov on September 13, 2008 Aronian vs Radjabov, 2008 Radjabov lost to Van Wely on November 15, 2008 Van Wely vs Radjabov, 2008 Van Wely lost to Ziska on November 16, 2008 H Ziska vs Van Wely, 2008 Ziska lost to Ramirez on November 19, 2008 A Ramirez vs H Ziska, 2008 2009 tomorrow. |
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Apr-23-14
| | alexmagnus: 2009:
Ramirez lost to Lenderman on May 30 Lenderman vs A Ramirez, 2009 Lenderman lost to Kacheishvili on June 1: Lenderman vs G Kacheishvili, 2009 Kacheishvili lost to Zapata on July 3: A Zapata vs G Kacheishvili, 2009 Zapata lost to Kamsky on July 5: A Zapata vs Kamsky, 2009 Kamsky lost to Jakovenko on August 10: Jakovenko vs Kamsky, 2009 Jakovenko lost on August 16 to Bacrot: Bacrot vs Jakovenko, 2009 Bacrot lost to Inarkiev on August 20: E Inarkiev vs Bacrot, 2009 Inarkiev lost to Aronian on August 23: Aronian vs E Inarkiev, 2009 Aronian lost to Grischuk on September 6: Grischuk vs Aronian, 2009 Grischuk lost to Karjakin on September 8: Karjakin vs Grischuk, 2009 Karjakin lost to Navara on November 27: Navara vs Karjakin, 2009 Navara lost to Karjakin on November 28: Karjakin vs Navara, 2009 Karjakin lost to Gelfand on December 6: Karjakin vs Gelfand, 2009 2010 tomorrow. |
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Apr-24-14
| | alexmagnus: 2010:
Gelfand lost to Aronian on January 6 Aronian vs Gelfand, 2010 Aronian lost to Sasikiran on January 9 Sasikiran vs Aronian, 2010 Sasikiran lost to Le Quang Liem on February 6 Le Quang Liem vs Sasikiran, 2010 Le lost to Kuderinov on April 21 K Kuderinov vs Le Quang Liem, 2010 Kuderinov lost to Yu Yangyi on April 22 Y Yu vs K Kuderinov, 2010 Yu lost to Li Chao on April 27 Li Chao vs Y Yu, 2010 Li lost to Ni Hua on April 28 Ni Hua vs Li Chao, 2010 Ni lost to Lu Shanglei on May 26 Lu Shanglei vs Ni Hua, 2010 Lu lost to Zhou Jianchao on May 27 Lu Shanglei vs Zhou Jianchao, 2010 Zhou Jianchao lost to Zhou Weiqi on May 31 Zhou Weiqi vs Zhou Jianchao, 2010 Zhou Weiqi lost to Wang Hao on June 3 Zhou Weiqi vs Wang Hao, 2010 Wang Hao lost to Zhou Weiqi on June 14 Zhou Weiqi vs Wang Hao, 2010 Zhou Weiqi lost to Li Chao on June 18 Li Chao vs Zhou Weiqi, 2010 Li Chao lost to Shulman on September 29 Li Chao vs Y Shulman, 2010 Shulman lost to Mikhalevski on October 1 V Mikhalevski vs Y Shulman, 2010 Mikhalevski lost to Bogosavljevic on October 18 V Mikhalevski vs Y Shulman, 2010 Bogosavljevic lost to McShane on October 23 B Bogosavljevic vs McShane, 2010 2011 tomorrow. |
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