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Carlsen's Domination

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There is a bigger gap between world number 1 Magnus Carlsen and number 2 Levon Aronian than there is between Aronian and number 16 Anish Giri in the latest Live Ratings.

http://www.2700chess.com/

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Originally posted by woodypusher
There is a bigger gap between world number 1 Magnus Carlsen and number 2 Levon Aronian than there is between Aronian and number 16 Anish Giri in the latest Live Ratings.

http://www.2700chess.com/
The thing that i find amazing is if you look at the all time highest live scores on that page, Fischer is still ranked 13th, 41 years after he retired!

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Darn it! I've slipped out of the top 6 billion.

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Now Carlsen is 67.4 pts ahead of #2 Aronian.

Aronian is 65.1 pts ahead of #22 Peter Leko

http://www.2700chess.com/

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The gap is widening. Is Carlsen that much stronger than everyone else?

#1 Carlsen 2870.0, #2 Vladimir Kramnik 2796.4 (+73.6)

#2 Kramnik 2796.4, #28 Teimour Radjabov 2723.0 (+73.4)

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Originally posted by woodypusher
The gap is widening. Is Carlsen that much stronger than everyone else?

#1 Carlsen 2870.0, #2 Vladimir Kramnik 2796.4 (+73.6)

#2 Kramnik 2796.4, #28 Teimour Radjabov 2723.0 (+73.4)
He must be since the rating is based on how many games you win....
My question is, does he have the strength to get to the 2900's?
I think he will be losing points during the coming world championship, even a draw means a point or two and there WILL be a bunch of draws.

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I think if he can keep his motivation he will dominate chess like Kasparov did for 15 years.

Anand and Kramnik are great players but they were only first among equals. A bit like the Soviet World Champions of the 1950's n 60's.