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alexmagnus
Member since Dec-06-04 · Last seen Jan-12-26

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)

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)

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

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

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.

   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 ...

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Sep-27-21		beatgiant: The maximum attainment of writing systems in the world championship cycle (interzonals/world cup, candidates, finalist, champion), with year first attained. I don't include the FIDE events from the split-title era. I also don't include the other qualifiers like Grand Swiss. Accuracy not guaranteed! It's a lot of work to check. Latin - champion, 1886 Cyrillic - champion, 1927 Armenian - champion, 1963 Tamil - champion, 2007 Hebrew - finalist, 2007 Han ideographs - candidates, 2016 Devanagari - candidates, 2016 Mongolian - interzonal, 1967 Arabic - interzonal, 1967 Georgian - world cup, 2005 Malayalam - world cup, 2005 Telugu - world cup, 2005 Bengali - world cup, 2005 Greek - world cup, 2009 Javanese - world cup, 2011

Sep-27-21		beatgiant: The maximum number of writing systems at each stage of the world championship cycle (same restrictions as above). Final: 2007 (Tamil, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Latin, Armenian) Candidates: 2016 (Cyrillic, Latin, Tamil, Armenian, Devanagari, Han ideographs) Interzonal/World Cup: That's a lot to check! I'm guessing it reached maximal coverage in 2021. I'll list out the ones I was able to verify, and there might be one or two more. Latin, Armenian, Devanagari, Cyrillic, Arabic, Telugu, Han ideographs, Hebrew, Tamil, Malayalam, Georgian, Javanese, Burmese, Mongolian, Bengali, Greek, Sinhala

Sep-27-21		beatgiant: And if I'm not mistaken, Burmese and Sinhala first appeared in the championship cycle in world cup 2021.

Oct-01-21		alexmagnus: October: European Union: 1. Giri 2774 2-3. Firoizja 2770 2-3. Rapport 2770 4. Vachier-Lagrave 2763 5. Duda 2756 6. Topalov 2730 7. Vallejo 2701 8-10. Navara 2691 8-10. Wojtaszek 2691 8-10. Van Foreest 2691 Former Soviet Union: 1-2. Nepomniachtchi 2782 1-2. Aronian 2782 3. Grischuk 2773 4. Mamedyarov 2765 5. Radjabov 2763 6. Karjakin 2743 7. Andreikin 2728 8. Vitiugov 2727 9. Espienko 2720 10. Dubov 2714 Former British Empire: 1. Caruana 2800 2. So 2778 3. Dominguez 2760 4. Anand 2753 5. Nakamura 2736 6. Vidit 2727 7. Harikrishna 2719 8. Adams 2716 9. Shankland 2714 10. Xiong 2700 Asia: 1. Ding 2799 2. Anand 2753 3. Wang 2744 4. Vidit 2727 5. Wei 2725 6. Harikrishna 2719 7. Le 2709 8. Bu 2705 9. Yu 2704 10. Maghsoodloo 2701 Born later than the world champion: 1. Caruana 2800 2. Ding 2799 3. So 2778 4. Giri 2774 5-6. Firouzja 2770 5-6. Rapport 2770 7. Duda 2756 8. Vidit 2727 9. Wei 2725 10. Esipenko 2720 Nuclear powers: 1. Caruana 2800 2. Ding 2799 3. Nepomniachtchi 2782 4. So 2778 5. Grischuk 2773 6. Firouzja 2770 7. Vachier-Lagrave 2763 8. Dominguez 2760 9. Anand 2753 10. Wang 2744

Oct-01-21		Messiah: Please create a list of players in even/odd birth years. And one with university degree vs no university degree.

Oct-01-21		beatgiant: <Messiah> <even/odd birth years> Interesting request. Does this have something to do with agricultural cycles in the former USSR or something? Top 10 with even birth years: 1. Carlsen 2855 (1990) 2. Caruana 2800 (1992) 3. Ding 2799 (1992) 4-5. Aronian 2782 (1982) 4-5. Nepomniachtchi 2782 (1990) 6. Giri 2774 (1994) 7. Rapport 2770 (1996) 8. Vachier-Lagrave 2763 (1990) 9. Duda 2756 (1998) 10. Karjakin 2743 (1990) Top 10 with odd birth years: 1. So 2778 (1993) 2. Grischuk 2773 (1983) 3. Firouzja 2770 (2003) 4. Mamedyarov 2765 (1985) 5. Radjabov 2763 (1987) 6. Dominguez Perez 2760 (1983) 7. Anand 2753 (1969) 8. Wang 2744 (1989) 9. Nakamura 2736 (1987) 10. Topalov 2730 (1975)

Oct-01-21		beatgiant: <Messiah> <university degree vs no university degree> We usually stick to things that are easily found in the FIDE profile. This particular request requires some pretty labor intensive and error prone research, and I can't guarantee the accuracy at all. But here's a quick attempt. No university degree: 1. Carlsen 2855 2. Caruana 2800 3. Aronian 2782 4. So 2778 5. Giri 2774 6. Grischuk 2773 7-8. Firouzja 2770 7-8. Rapport 2770 9. Mamedyarov 2765 10. Radjabov 2763 Have university degree: *(I listed only those whose educational status I could quickly find. I very likely missed a few, and welcome any additions.) 1. Ding 2799 (Peking U. Law School) 2. Nepomniachtchi 2782 (Russian State Social U.) 3. Vachier-Lagrave 2763 (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) (Duda 2756, University School of Physical Education, Kraków but I can't quickly check whether he's graduated yet) 4. Anand 2753 (Loyola College, Chennai) 5. Wang 2744 (Peking U.) 6. Karjakin 2743 (Russian State Social U.) (Wei Yi 2725, attending or has completed college but I can't quickly find any details) 7. Shankland 2714 (Brandeis) (Alekseenko 2710, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University but I can't quickly check whether he's graduated yet) 8. Yu 2704 (Beijing Sports University) 9. Eljanov 2691 (Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine) 10. Korobov 2690 (U. of Kharkiv)

Oct-01-21		alexmagnus: <beatgiant> I like that "university degree" list! And thank you for providing the universities themselves :)

Oct-01-21		Messiah: <beatgiant> OMG you are amazing! Thank you very much!

Oct-01-21		beatgiant: Already I find I missed Le 2709 (Webster U.), and I also suspect Bu 2705 has a degree, but can't find any info.

Oct-02-21		beatgiant: I also see it reported that Aronian has a degree from Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture.

Oct-05-21		beatgiant: According to his Russian wikipedia page, Alekseenko has graduated. It's enough changes that I should post a corrected list now.

Oct-05-21		beatgiant: No university degree: 1. Carlsen 2855 2. Caruana 2800 3. So 2778 4. Giri 2774 5. Grischuk 2773 6-7. Firouzja 2770 6-7. Rapport 2770 8. Mamedyarov 2765 9. Radjabov 2763 10. Dominguez Perez 2760 Have university degree: 1. Ding 2799 (Peking U. Law School) 2-3. Aronian 2782 (Armenian State Institute of Physical Culture) 2-3. Nepomniachtchi 2782 (Russian State Social U.) 4. Vachier-Lagrave 2763 (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) (Duda 2756, University School of Physical Education, Kraków) 5. Anand 2753 (Loyola College, Chennai) 6. Wang 2744 (Peking U.) 7. Karjakin 2743 (Russian State Social U.) (Wei Yi 2725) 8. Shankland 2714 (Brandeis U.) 9 Alekseenko 2710 (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic U.) 10. Le 2709 (Webster U.) 11. Yu 2704 (Beijing Sports U.) 12. Eljanov 2691 (Yaroslav the Wise Law Academy of Ukraine) 13. Korobov 2690 (U. of Kharkiv)

Oct-05-21		beatgiant: I found a report that Duda graduated in 2020, so that makes him #5 on the graduates list and everyone beyond is bumped down a rank.

Nov-01-21		alexmagnus: November: European Union: 1. Giri 2774 2. Firouzja 2770 3. Vachier-Lagrave 2766 4. Rapport 2763 5. Duda 2756 6. Topalov 2730 7. Vallejo 2704 8. Van Foreest 2701 9. Wojtaszek 2700 10. Navara 2699 Former Soviet Union: 1-2. Aronian 2782 1-2. Nepomniachtchi 2782 3. Grischuk 2773 4. Mamedyarov 2765 5. Radjabov 2763 6. Karjakin 2743 7. Vitiugov 2734 8. Andreikin 2724 9. Dubov 2714 10. Esipenko 2713 Former British Empire: 1. Caruana 2791 2. So 2772 3. Dominguez 2752 4. Anand 2751 5. Nakamura 2736 6. Vidit 2727 7. Harikrishna 2721 8. Adams 2714 9. Shankland 2708 10. Sadler 2694 Asia: 1. Ding 2799 2. Anand 2751 3. Wang 2744 4. Wei 2729 5. Vidit 2727 6. Harikrishna 2721 7. Le 2709 8. Maghsoodloo 2706 9. Yu 2704 10. Bu 2700 Born later than the world champion: 1. Ding 2799 2. Caruana 2791 3. Giri 2774 4. So 2772 5. Firouzja 2770 6. Rapport 2763 7. Duda 2756 8. Wei 2729 9. Vidit 2727 10. Dubov 2714 Nuclear powers: 1. Ding 2799 2. Caruana 2791 3. Nepomniachtchi 2782 4. Grischuk 2773 5. So 2772 6. Firouzja 2770 7. Vachier-Lagrave 2766 8. Dominguez 2752 9. Anand 2751 10. Wang 2744

Nov-08-21		beatgiant: With Firouzja's win of the Grand Swiss, Arabic script makes it into the Candidates for the first time. (Actually, due to the multicultural nature of human existence, I had to make a lot of judgement calls about which script to consider native for certain names. In particular, what's the native script of Azerbaijani names? Arabic script is traditional, while Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic are all in use today. But I hesitate to post a deep dive into the question and risk boring my fellow kibitzers even more than usual. For my lists above, I assumed Latin script.)

Nov-08-21		beatgiant: Maybe it would work if I put the explanation in a catchy song. (to the tune of "Istanbul, not Constantinople") Azerbaijani used Arabic script, Now it's Latin script, not Arabic, Been a long time gone, Arabic script, Now it's shekerbura on a moonlit night. Every gal in Sumqayit Writes her name in Latin script, So if you write a note to a gal in Sumqayit, You better write her name in Latin script. Even from Latin script they once changed to Cyrillic, Why'd they change it I can't say, Stalin just liked it better that way. So write Radjabov's name in Arabic script, No you can't write his name in Arabic script, Been a long time gone, Arabic script, Why did Arabic script get buried? That's nobody's business but the Azeris'.

Nov-15-21		alexmagnus: I put the queston in the opening's page already but I also repeat it here for the readers of my forum: Does anyone know where the name of the Forgotten Variation of the Marshall Gambit came from? Why is it forgotten? By whom? Please no punny answers :). I seriously want to know it, the name is so unusual.

Nov-15-21		diceman: I've never heard, but my guess would be that it's rare. Rare = not used = forgotten.

Nov-16-21		alexmagnus: Still, there must be some context in which the term was first coined. And it must have been notable enough that it got stuck as the "official" name of the variation. For most bizarre opening names finding the source of the name is easy. The Forgotten Variation... not so. Also, it seems that the name "Forgotten Variation" is used in English language publications and media only. At least searches in German and Russian showed no knowledge of such a variation. So, I guess the source was some English language remark somewhere.

Dec-01-21		alexmagnus: December: European Union: 1. Firouzja 2804 2. Giri 2772 3. Rapport 2763 4. Vachier-Lagrave 2761 5. Duda 2760 6. Topalov 2730 7-8. Shirov 2704 7-8. Vallejo 2704 9. Van Foreest 2702 10. Navara 2697 Former Soviet Union: 1. Nepomniachtchi 2782 2. Aronian 2772 3. Mamedyarov 2767 4. Grischuk 2764 5. Radjabov 2753 6. Karjakin 2743 7. Vitiugov 2731 8. Andreikin 2724 9. Dubov 2720 10. Esipenko 2714 Former British Empire: 1. Caruana 2792 2. So 2772 3. Dominguez 2752 4. Anand 2751 5. Vidit 2727 6. Harikrishna 2717 7. Shankland 2708 8. Adams 2700 9. Sadler 2694 10. Salem 2690 Asia: 1. Ding 2799 2. Anand 2751 3. Wang 2744 4. Wei 2729 5. Vidit 2727 6. Harikrishna 2717 7. Yu 2713 8. Le 2709 9. Maghsoodloo 2701 10. Bu 2700 Born later than the world champion: 1. Firouzja 2804 2. Ding 2799 3. Caruana 2792 4-5. Giri 2772 4-5. So 2772 6. Rapport 2763 7. Duda 2760 8. Wei 2729 9. Vidit 2727 10. Dubov 2720 Nuclear powers: 1. Firouzja 2804 2. Ding 2799 3. Caruana 2792 4. Nepomniachtchi 2782 5. So 2772 6. Grischuk 2764 7. Vachier-Lagrave 2761 8. Dominguez 2752 9. Anand 2751 10. Wang 2744

Jan-02-22		alexmagnus: January: European Union: 1. Firouzja 2804 2. Giri 2772 3. Rapport 2763 4. Vachier-Lagrave 2761 5. Duda 2760 6. Topalov 2730 7-8. Shirov 2704 7-8. Vallejo 2704 9. Van Foreest 2702 10. Navara 2697 Former Soviet Union: 1. Nepomniachtchi 2773 2. Mamedyarov 2767 3. Grischuk 2764 4. Radjabov 2753 5. Karjakin 2743 6. Vitiugov 2736 7. Andreikin 2724 8. Dubov 2720 9. Esipenko 2714 10. Tomashevsky 2708 Former British Empire: 1. Caruana 2792 2-3. Aronian 2772 2-3. So 2772 4. Dominguez 2752 5. Anand 2751 6. Vidit 2727 7. Harikrishna 2717 8. Shankland 2708 9. Adams 2698 10. Sadler 2694 Asia: 1. Ding 2799 2. Anand 2751 3. Wang 2744 4. Wei 2729 5. Vidit 2727 6. Harikrishna 2717 7. Yu 2713 8. Le 2709 9. Maghsoodloo 2701 10. Bu 2700 Born later than the world champion: 1. Firouzja 2804 2. Ding 2799 3. Caruana 2792 4-5. Giri 2772 4-5. So 2772 6. Rapport 2763 7. Duda 2760 8. Wei 2729 9. Vidit 2727 10. Dubov 2720 Nuclear powers: 1. Firouzja 2804 2. Ding 2799 3. Caruana 2792 4. Nepomniachtchi 2773 5-6. Aronian 2772 5-6. So 2772 7. Grischuk 2764 8. Vachier-Lagrave 2761 9. Dominguez 2752 10. Anand 2751

Feb-01-22		alexmagnus: Hm, was Wijk not evaluated for the February list? Not submitted in time?

Feb-01-22		alexmagnus: I see FIDE says it will be evaluated for the March list. Then the lists will hardly change :D. Still, for the sake of completeness I post them.

Feb-01-22		alexmagnus: February: European Union: 1. Firouzja 2804 2. Giri 2772 3. Rapport 2763 4. Vachier-Lagrave 2761 5. Duda 2760 6. Topalov 2730 7-8. Shirov 2704 7-8. Vallejo 2704 9. Van Foreest 2702 10. Navara 2697 Former Soviet Union: 1. Nepomniachtchi 2773 2. Mamedyarov 2767 3. Grischuk 2764 4. Radjabov 2753 5. Karjakin 2743 6. Vituigov 2726 7. Andreikin 2724 8. Dubov 2720 9. Esipenko 2714 10. Tomashevsky 2708 Former British Empire: 1. Caruana 2792 2-3. Aronian 2772 2-3. So 2772 4. Dominguez 2752 5. Anand 2751 6. Vidit 2727 7. Harikrishna 2719 8. Shankand 2708 9. Adams 2698 10. Sadler 2694 Asia: 1. Ding 2799 2. Anand 2751 3. Wang 2744 4. Wei 2729 5. Vidit 2727 6. Harikrishna 2719 7. Yu 2713 8. Le 2709 9. Maghsoodloo 2701 10. Bu 2700 Born later than the world champion: 1. Firouzja 2804 2. Ding 2799 3. Caruana 2792 4-5. Giri 2772 4-5. So 2772 6. Rapport 2763 7. Duda 2760 8. Wei 2729 9. Vidit 2727 10. Dubov 2720 Nuclear powers: 1. Firouzja 2804 2. Ding 2799 3. Caruana 2792 4. Nepomniachtchi 2773 5-6. Aronian 2772 5-6. So 2772 7. Grischuk 2764 8. Vachier-Lagrave 2761 9. Dominguez 2752 10. Anand 2751

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