Magnus Carlsen is the most dominant human in history.
Approximately 3,000 games of chess.
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He's no Joey Chestnut
He almost won FPL some years ago as well (a game with literally millions of players). Ended up coming 7th or something after leading it for a long time. Unreal levels of spectrum.
Magnus of course is amazing, but that stat is partly a function of high draw rates (55%+) among elite grandmasters in classical chess.
Marion Tinsley only lost seven games in his entire career, and two of those were to a computer.
Marion Tinsley only lost seven games in his entire career, and two of those were to a computer.
That was checkers, not chess.
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Magnus is unreal!!!! He never loses 3 times in a row!!!
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Magnus is unreal!!!! He never loses 3 times in a row!!!
It's not his only accomplishment.... 😃
Thank you for poo-poo'ing what could have been a fun thread.
On second thought, the most dominant human wouldn't have reacted like that. Unless there is more to the story -- like if Hans ran over Magnus' dog or something.
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Magnus is unreal!!!! He never loses 3 times in a row!!!
I'd be shocked if he had a run like that at any point past 18. Without looking I'd guess his worst 10 game stretch will have 3-4 losses(I'd bet on 2 before 5), and probably still 3-4 wins in it. He has been world #1 for a long time and no one has beaten him consistently in that timeframe.
His worst year in his career he had 10 losses in 72 games. A couple years around 10% loss rate and a crazy 126 game unbeaten streak vs with the average rating of his opponents was over 2700.
I'd be shocked if he had a run like that at any point past 18. Without looking I'd guess his worst 10 game stretch will have 3-4 losses(I'd bet on 2 before 5), and probably still 3-4 wins in it. He has been world #1 for a long time and no one has beaten him consistently in that timeframe.His worst year in his career he had 10 losses in 72 games. A couple years around 10% loss r
Magnus became world #1 in 2010. I'd be shocked if he ever had a ten game stretch after 2010 in which he lost four games under classical times controls. And a ten game stretch in which he lost three games would surprise me somewhat. At one point, he had a string of 125 consecutive games without a single loss.
Has anybody repeated anything close to Bobby's 1970-72? Included in his Candidate match massacres, he also destroyed the top speed chess players of the game (including Tal!).
He also did the meta stuff nobody was willing to discuss, such as USSR match fixing.
He was also right about his proposed format of the championship match against Karpov, but FIDE screwed that up (probably due to USSR).
He also correctly anticipated the direction of chess, and invented Chess960.
bobby's peak and how it surpassed the world, well no one has come close since.
FIDE didnt back into fischer's demands for the karpov match because they knew he'd forfeit the title. pretty scummy behavior by them.
So, USSR then, right?
Obviously the world (and Chess world specifically) is better off with Bobby playing against Karpov.
You give and you get.
