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alexmagnus
Member since Dec-06-04 · Last seen Oct-29-25

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 11632 times to chessgames [more...]

   Oct-27-25 Vladimir Kramnik

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

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 ...

   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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Feb-28-15		alexmagnus: Supranational top-10 lists for March: European Union: 1. Caruana 2802 2. Topalov 2798 3. Giri 2790 4. Vachier-Lagrave 2765 5. Adams 2745 6. Wojtaszek 2737 7. Navara 2736 8. Leko 2713 9. Bacrot 2712 10. Naiditsch 2711 Former Soviet Union: 1. Grischuk 2794 2. Kramnik 2783 3. Aronian 2770 4. Karjakin 2757 5. Mamedyarov 2756 6. Tomashevsky 2745 7. Jakovenko 2742 8. Vitiugov 2739 9. Radjabov 2738 10. Ivanchuk 2731 Former British Empire: 1. Nakamura 2798 2. Anand 2791 3. So 2788 4. Gelfand 2747 5. Adams 2745 6. Harikrishna 2729 7-8. Howell 2686 7-8. McShane 2686 9. Kamsky 2683 10. Sasikiran 2682

Feb-28-15		alexmagnus: Asia: 1. Anand 2791 2. Ding 2755 3. Gelfand 2747 4. Harikrishna 2729 5. Wang Yue 2726 6. Yu 2724 7. Li 2721 8. Wang Hao 2713 9. Kasimdzhanov 2712 10. Wei 2706 Georgraphically speaking, with the Caucasian former Soviet republics being counted as Europe, same with Russia (they all live in Moscow anyway, with the typical Russian policy of bringing all talents to Moscow).

Mar-06-15		alexmagnus: 2001 4 12 3 2002 2 13 6.5 2003 5 14 2.8 2004 3 18 6 2005 4 15 3.75 2006 2 19 9.5 2007 4 21 5.25 2008 13 24 1.(846153) 2009 6 31 5.1(6) 2010 9 34 3.(7) 2011 9 39 4.(3) 2012 8 44 5.5 2013 4 48 12 2014 5 50 10

May-14-15		alexmagnus: Supranational Top 10 by May: European Union: 1. Caruana 2803 2. Topalov 2798 3. Giri 2776 4. Vachier-Lagrave 2754 5. Navara 2751 6. Wojtaszek 2746 7. Adams 2740 8. Naiditsch 2720 9. Leko 2714 10. Fressinet 2712 Former Soviet Union: 1. Grischuk 2780 2. Kramnik 2777 3. Aronian 2776 4. Karjakin 2753 5. Tomashevsky 2749 6-7. Jakovenko 2738 6-7. Radjabov 2738 8. Vituigov 2736 9. Mamedyarov 2735 10. Svidler 2734 Former British Empire: 1. Anand 2804 2. Nakamura 2799 3. So 2778 4. Gelfand 2744 5. Adams 2740 6. Harikrishna 2733 7. Howell 2696 8. McShane 2685 9. Short 2683 10. Rodshtein 2682 Asia: 1. Anand 2803 2. Ding 2757 3. Li 2748 4. Gelfand 2744 5. Harikrishna 2733 6. Wang Yue 2724 7. Yu 2723 8. Wei 2718 9. Kasimdzhanov 2715 10. Wang Hao 2710

May-14-15		alexmagnus: <Anand 2803 > 2804 of course :)

May-31-15		alexmagnus: Supranational top-10, June 2015. European Union: 1. Caruana 2805 2. Topalov 2798 3. Giri 2773 4. Navara 2751 5. Wojtaszek 2749 6. Adams 2740 7. Vachier-Lagrave 2723 8. Naiditsch 2722 9. Fressinet 2720 10. Leko 2714 Former Soviet Union: 1. Kramnik 2783 2. Grischuk 2781 3. Aronian 2780 4. Jakovenko 2759 5. Karjakin 2753 6. Tomashevsky 2745 7. Svidler 2740 8. Radjabov 2738 9. Mamedyarov 2735 10. Vitiugov 2734 Former British Empire: 1. Anand 2804 2. Nakamura 2802 3. So 2778 4. Gelfand 2751 5. Adams 2740 6. Harikrishna 2733 7. Howell 2698 8. McShane 2685 9. Short 2683 10. Rodshtein 2678 Asia: 1. Anand 2804 2. Gelfand 2751 3. Ding 2749 4. Li 2748 5. Harikrishna 2733 6. Wang Yue 2726 7. Wei 2721 8. Yu 2715 9-10. Wang Hao 2704 9-10. Kasimdzhanov 2704

Jul-01-15		alexmagnus: Yesterday I experience the most amazing change of form I ever had. ... The chess day started badly. Of my daily five puzzles on chess.com I solved only three - in one of the failed ones just not calculating far enough to see the refutation of my solution, in the other one missing the idea entirely. The I went to play. My typical "slow blitz", 5+5. First two or three games badly, even the win. But what happened in the following hour or so... Not just that I won all my games during that hour. <How> I won them made me wonder what the heck just happened. All games but one ended in a mating attack (some with sacs, some without them), and that before move 25. In the only game without a mating attack I trapped my opponent's Queen within the first dozen of moves (but blundered while he tried to untrap it, ending up "only" a piece up). I felt, as if during that hour I didn't just paid more attention to the game as usual - even there I still made some silly mistakes.. No, it felt as if I suddenly <understood> chess by 500 Elo better than usual - as if somebody lent me the chess understanding if a 2000+ player for an hour, while still letting me make occasional tactical mistakes not worthy even a 1400. The pieces just fell to their places so that the chances for a mating attack (and those were all different attacks, not just some standard approach) became higher with each move. <What was it?>. And how can I learn from such a high of form? How can I "materialize" that feeling of new understanding?

Jul-01-15		alexmagnus: Of* a 2000+ player

Jul-04-15		alexmagnus: Supranational top 10, July: European Union: 1. Topalov 2816 2. Giri 2791 3. Adams 2740 4. Wojtaszek 2733 5. Vachier-Lagrave 2731 6. Navara 2724 7. Leko 2714 8. Fressinet 2707 9. Shirov 2702 10. Almasi 2700 Former Soviet Union: 1. Kramnik 2783 2. Grischuk 2771 3. Aronian 2765 4. Jakovenko 2757 5. Karjakin 2753 6. Tomashevsky 2745 7. Svidler 2740 8. Radjabov 2738 9. Mamedyarov 2735 10. Vitiugov 2734 Former British Empire: 1. Anand 2816 2. Nakamura 2814 3. Caruana 2797 4. So 2780 5. Gelfand 2751 6. Adams 2740 7. Harikrishna 2733 8. Howell 2698 9. McShane 2685 10. Short 2683 Asia: 1. Anand 2816 2. Gelfand 2751 3. Ding 2749 4. Li 2748 5. Yu 2736 6. Harikrishna 2733 7. Wei 2724 8. Wang Yue 2716 9. Wang Hao 2705 10. Kasimdzhanov 2704

Jul-31-15		alexmagnus: Supranational top 10, August 2015: European Union: 1. Topalov 2816 2. Giri 2793 3. Adams 2740 4. Wojtaszek 2733 5. Vachier-Lagrave 2731 6. Navara 2724 7. Leko 2714 8. Howell 2712 9. Fressinet 2710 10-11. Kovalenko 2702 10-11. Shirov 2702 Former Soviet Union: 1. Kramnik 2777 2. Grischuk 2771 3. Aronian 2765 4. Jakovenko 2759 5. Karjakin 2753 6. Tomashevsky 2747 7. Svidler 2739 8. Radjabov 2738 9. Mamedyarov 2735 10. Ivanchuk 2726 Former British Empire: 1. Anand 2816 2. Nakamura 2814 3. Caruana 2808 4. So 2779 5. Gelfand 2741 6-7. Harikrishna 2740 6-7. Adams 2740 8. Howell 2712 9. Robson 2680 10-11. Short 2678 10-11. Rodshtein 2678 Asia: 1. Anand 2816 2. Ding 2770 3. Li 2748 4. Gelfand 2741 5. Harikrishna 2740 6. Yu 2726 7. Wei 2725 8. Wang Yue 2721 9. Ni 2713 10. Bu 2712

Aug-31-15		alexmagnus: September 2015: European Union: 1. Topalov 2816 2. Giri 2793 3. Vachier-Lagrave 2744 4. Adams 2742 5. Wojtaszek 2741 6. Navara 2728 7. Shirov 2712 9. Leko 2707 10. Howell 2705 Former Soviet Union: 1. Kramnik 2777 2. Grischuk 2771 3. Aronian 2765 4. Karjakin 2762 5. Tomashevsky 2758 6. Jakovenko 2748 7. Radjabov 2738 8. Mamedyarov 2736 9. Svidler 2727 10. Ivanchuk 2726 Former British Empire: 1. Anand 2816 2. Nakamura 2814 3. Caruana 2808 4. So 2773 5. Adams 2742 6. Gelfand 2741 7. Harikrishna 2737 8. Howell 2705 9. Kamsky 2691 10. Robson 2680 Asia: 1. Anand 2816 2. Ding 2782 3. Li 2756 4. Gelfand 2741 5. Harikrishna 2737 6. Wei 2734 7. Wang Yue 2724 8. Yu 2721 9. Wang Hao 2712 10. Bu 2710

Oct-04-15		alexmagnus: October: European Union: 1. Topalov 2813 2. Giri 2798 3. Vachier-Lagrave 2758 4. Adams 2742 5-6. Navara 2734 5-6. Wojtaszek 2734 7. Shirov 2715 8. Leko 2707 9. Howell 2705 10. Fressinet 2702 Former Soviet Union: 1. Aronian 2784 2. Kramnik 2777 3. Grischuk 2774 4. Karjakin 2762 5. Tomashevsky 2758 6. Jakovenko 2748 7. Radjabov 2738 8. Mamedyarov 2736 9. Svidler 2727 10. Ivanchuk 2726 Former British Empire: 1. Nakamura 2816 2. Anand 2803 3. Caruana 2796 4. So 2760 5. Adams 2742 6. Gelfand 2741 7. Harikrishna 2737 8. Howell 2705 9-10. Kamsky 2680 9-10. Robson 2680 Asia: 1. Anand 2803 2. Ding 2782 3. Li 2750 4. Gelfand 2741 5. Harikrishna 2737 6. Wei 2734 7. Wang Yue 2724 8. Yu 2721 9. Wang Hao 2712 10. Bu 2710

Oct-31-15		alexmagnus: November: European Union: 1. Topalov 2803 2. Giri 2778 3. Vachier-Lagrave 2765 4. Wojtaszek 2748 5. Adams 2744 6. Navara 2730 7. Fressinet 2712 8. Leko 2708 9. Kovalenko 2694 10-11. Rapport 2693 10-11. Howell 2693 Former Soviet Union: 1. Kramnik 2796 2. Aronian 2781 3. Karjakin 2766 4. Eljanov 2753 5. Grischuk 2750 6. Svidler 2745 7-8. Mamedyarov 2743 7-8. Tomashevsky 2743 9. Radjabov 2739 10. Jakovenko 2735 Former British Empire: 1. Anand 2803 2. Nakamura 2793 3. Caruana 2787 4. So 2767 5. Adams 2744 6. Harikrishna 2743 7. Gelfand 2731 8. Howell 2693 9. McShane 2687 10. Short 2686 Asia: 1. Anand 2803 2. Ding 2781 3. Li 2750 4. Harikrishna 2743 5. Wei 2737 6. Yu 2734 7. Gelfand 2731 8. Wang Yue 2729 9. Le 2718 10. Bu 2710

Nov-30-15		alexmagnus: December: European Union: 1. Topalov 2803 2. Giri 2784 3. Vachier-Lagrave 2773 4. Adams 2737 5. Navara 2730 6. Wojtaszek 2723 7. Rapport 2715 8. Fressinet 2707 9. Leko 2705 10. Bacrot 2692 Former Soviet Union: 1. Kramnik 2796 2. Aronian 2788 3. Karjakin 2766 4. Eljanov 2763 5. Svidler 2751 6. Mamedyarov 2748 7. Grischuk 2747 8. Tomashevsky 2744 9. Jakovenko 2737 10. Andreikin 2732 Former British Empire: 1. Anand 2796 2. Nakamura 2793 3. Caruana 2787 4. So 2775 5. Harikrishna 2743 6. Adams 2737 7. Gelfand 2731 8. Howell 2688 9. Short 2684 10. Rodshtein 2678 Asia: 1. Anand 2796 2. Ding 2776 3. Li 2750 4. Harikrishna 2743 5. Yu 2736 6. Gelfand 2731 7. Wei 2730 8. Wang Yue 2724 9. Le 2718 10. Bu 2712

Dec-23-15		alexmagnus: Continuation on my "one-gae titleholders" row. Reminder: this "title" passes from a player to a player by beating the previous titleholder in one tournament game. Our previous exploration stopped on Sepetmer 18th, 2014, when Caruana got the title. 2014: Caruana lost to Andreikin on October 9: D Andreikin vs Caruana, 2014 Andreikin lost to Tomashevsky on October 13: Tomashevsky vs D Andreikin, 2014 2015: Tomashevsky lost to Eljanov on April 19: Eljanov vs Tomashevsky, 2015 Eljanov lost to Rodshtein on April 22: M Rodshtein vs Eljanov, 2015 Rodshtein lost to Wei on April 25: Wei Yi vs M Rodshtein, 2015 Wei lost to Lu on May 29: Lu Shanglei vs Wei Yi, 2015 Lu lost to Wang Yue on July 2: Wang Yue vs Lu Shanglei, 2015 Wang Yue lost to Wei on July 24: Wei Yi vs Wang Yue, 2015 Wei lost to Ding on July 27: Wei Yi vs Ding Liren, 2015 Ding lost to Wei on September 21: Wei Yi vs Ding Liren, 2015 Wei lost to Bu on October 28: Wei Yi vs Bu Xiangzhi, 2015 Bu lost to Wei on November 30: Wei Yi vs Bu Xiangzhi, 2015 Wei lost to Gagare on December 20: S Gagare vs Wei Yi, 2015 Gagare hasn't lost since then, so Gagare is the current "titleholder".

Dec-26-15		alexmagnus: Gagare finally lost. To Sasikiran, so Sasikiran is the new "titleholder".

Dec-28-15		alexmagnus: Top 10 visited Wikipedia pages furing 2015 (source: Wikipedia itself; the name is given of the corresponding English article; if such is absent, it is <highlighted>) English: 1. Deaths in 2015 2. Facebook 3. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 4. List of Bollywood films of 2015 5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens 6. United States 7. Google 8. Game of Thrones 9. Chris Kyle 10. 2015 in film German: 1. Deaths in 2015 2. Germany 3. Game of Thrones 4. Wikipedia 5. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 6. The Walking Dead (TV Series) 7. Berlin 8. United States 9. Switzerland 10. The Big Bang Theory Chinese: 1. Running Man 2. China 3. <I am a Singer (third quarter)> 4. List of pornographic actors 5. Korean War 6. Xi Jinping 7. English language 8. Wu Zetian 9. Tiananmen square protests of 1989 10. Japan Spanish: 1. At sign 2. Volleyball 3. Basketball 4. Periodic table 5. World War II 6. World War I 7. United States 8. Technology 9. 2015 Copa América 10. Facebook Russian: 1. Russia 2. VK (social networking) 3. Game of Thrones 4. Deaths in 2015 5. YouTube 6. Wikipedia 7. Vladimir Putin 8. Odnoklassniki 9. Leviathan (2014 film) 10. Ukraine To be continued...

Dec-28-15		alexmagnus: French: 1. France 2. Game of Thrones 3. List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes 4. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 5. Facebook 6. Victor Hugo 7. The Walking Dead (TV series) 8. Wiki 9. Paris 10. United States Polish: 1. Poland 2. Suleiman the Magnificent 3. Andrzej Duda 4. Muhteşem Yüzyıl 5. Popek 6. Warsaw 7. Star Wars 8. Harry Potter 9. Pope John Paul II 10. James Bond Portuguese: 1. Coca-Cola 2. Brazil 3. List of Naruto: Shippuden episodes 4. Paper size 5. United States 6. World War II 7. Basketball 8. Star Wars 9. Stephen Hawking 10. Portugal Japanese: 1. Wikipedia 2. Yamaguchi-gumi 3. The Heroic Legend of Arslan 4. Is It Wrong to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? 5. Japan 6. Star Wars 7. Attack on Titan 8. Overlord (novel series) 9. One Piece 10. Momoiro Clover Z To be continued...

Dec-28-15		alexmagnus: Italian: 1. Game of Thrones 2. Grey's Anatomy 3. The Walking Dead (TV series) 4. Italy 5. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 6. Calendar of saints 7. The Vampire Diaries 8. Star Wars 9. Arrow (TV series) 10. The Flash (2014 TV series) Turkish: 1. <2015 Turkey general election polls> 2. Turkey 3. Istanbul 4. Suleiman the Magnificent 5. Ottoman Empire 6. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk 7. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan 8. Kösem Sultan 9. List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire 10. Facebook Vietnamese: 1. List of Running Man episodes 2. YouTube 3. Vietnam 4. Ho Chi Minh 5. Wu Zetian 6. Gmail 7. Facebook 8. Hanoi 9. List of universities in Ho Chi Minh City 10. Ho Chi Minh City Dutch: 1. Amsterdam 2. Netherlands 3. The Hague 4. Paper size 5. Deaths in 2015 6. Belgium 7. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 8. World War I 9. World War II 10. United States Persian: 1. Wikipedia 2. Iran 3. Alexis Texas 4. Qasem Soleimani 5. Sexual intercourse 6. <(Christian) Months> 7. Persian Wikipedia 8. Tehran 9. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant 10. English language

Dec-29-15		OhioChessFan: <What was it? And how can I learn from such a high of form? How can I "materialize" that feeling of new understanding?> Ask that somewhere else, like Kibitzer's Cafe. I'm curious what kind of responses there will be.

Dec-31-15		alexmagnus: Supranational top-10s for January: European Union: 1. Giri 2798 2. Vachier-Lagrave 2785 3. Topalov 2780 4. Adams 2744 5. Navara 2730 6. Wojtaszek 2727 7. Rapport 2721 8. Leko 2705 9. Fressinet 2700 10. Bacrot 2697 Former Soviet Union: 1. Kramnik 2801 2. Aronian 2792 3. Karjakin 2769 4. Eljanov 2760 5. Grischuk 2752 6. Svidler 2751 7. Mamedyarov 2747 8-9. Jakovenko 2732 8-9. Andreikin 2732 10. Tomashevsky 2728 Former British Empire: 1-2. Caruana 2787 1-2. Nakamura 2787 3. Anand 2784 4. So 2773 5. Harikrishna 2755 6. Adams 2744 7. Gelfand 2735 8-9. Howell 2685 8-9. Rodshtein 2685 10. Short 2684 Asia: 1. Anand 2784 2. Ding 2766 3. Harikrishna 2755 4. Li 2751 5. Yu 2747 6. Gelfand 2735 7. Bu 2724 8-9. Wang Yue 2718 8-9. Le 2718 10. Wei 2706

Jan-31-16		alexmagnus: The rating list didn't change much in February, still, here is the new list: European Union: 1. Giri 2798 2. Vachier-Lagrave 2785 3. Topalov 2780 4. Adams 2744 5. Navara 2734 6. Wojtaszek 2727 7. Rapport 2721 8. Leko 2705 9. Fressinet 2700 10. Bacrot 2697 Former Soviet Union: 1. Kramnik 2801 2. Aronian 2792 3. Karjakin 2769 4. Eljanov 2760 5. Grischuk 2752 6. Svidler 2751 7. Mamedyarov 2747 8-9. Andreikin 2732 8-9. Jakovenko 2732 10. Tomashevsky 2728 Former British Empire: 1-2. Caruana 2787 1-2. Nakamura 2787 3. Anand 2784 4. So 2773 5. Harikrishna 2753 6. Adams 2744 7. Gelfand 2735 8. Rodshtein 2708 9. Howell 2685 10. Short 2684 Asia: 1. Anand 2784 2. Ding 2766 3. Harikrishna 2753 4. Li 2751 5. Yu 2747 6. Gelfand 2735 7. Bu 2724 8. Wang Yue 2718 9. Wang Hao 2717 10. Le 2709

Feb-25-16		alexmagnus: As I wrote in Stockholm Interzonal (1952), it is the earliest Interzonal (and thereby the earliest world championship related event) from which there are players surviving to the day - Averbakh, Taimanov and Matanovic. Since Averbakh and Taimanov qualified for the Candidates from that Interzonal, the Zurich Candidates (1953) is the earliest Candidates event with currently living players (with no other Candidate than those two living). The earliest World Championship match with a surviving player is Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Match (1966), of which Spassky is living. The earlist World Championship match with a surviving winner is then, of course, Petrosian - Spassky World Championship Rematch (1969) Finally, the earliest World Championship match from which both participants are living is Karpov - Korchnoi World Championship Match (1978)

Feb-25-16		alexmagnus: ... As for the earliest World Championship related events with <all> participants surviving to the day, here it gets tricky. The earliest WC match with all players surviving is, as mentioned above, Karpov-Korchnoi 1978. The earliest Candidates event with all players surviving is the 1994-95 tournament for the Classical world championship. But what is full WC cycle which had any "bigger than Candidates + WC match" format (including FIDE KOs) with all players surviving to date? Incredibly, one has to op to the time <after> the Split to find such one. To be exact, the 2010 cycle (all players of the 2007 World Cup are living, as well as Topalov and Anand).

Feb-29-16		alexmagnus: March: European Union: 1. Giri 2793 2. Vachier-Lagrave 2792 3. Topalov 2780 4. Adams 2727 5. Navara 2726 6. Rapport 2720 7. Wojtaszek 2713 8. Leko 2705 9. Bacrot 2701 10. Ragger 2694 Former Soviet Union: 1. Kramnik 2801 2. Aronian 2786 3. Eljanov 2765 4. Karjakin 2760 5. Svidler 2757 6. Grischuk 2752 7. Mamedyarov 2747 8. Andreikin 2732 9. Jakovenko 2731 10. Radjabov 2726 Former British Empire: 1. Caruana 2794 2. Nakamura 2790 3. So 2773 4. Anand 2762 5. Harikrishna 2758 6. Gelfand 2735 7. Adams 2727 8. Rodshtein 2710 9. McShane 2676 10. Bareev 2675 Asia: 1. Ding 2777 2. Anand 2762 3. Harikrishna 2758 4. Li 2757 5. Yu 2738 6. Gelfand 2735 7. Bu 2724 8. Wang Yue 2718 9. Wang Hao 2717 10. Wei 2714

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