Will Carlsen be first past 2900?

Who cares about Magnus Carlsen anyway? The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this?

Originally posted by Thabtos
Who cares about Magnus Carlsen anyway? The man has only one look, for Christ's sake! Blue Steel? Ferrari? Le Tigra? They're the same face! Doesn't anybody notice this?

he's working hard on Magnum though! wait for it.

Although Carlsen is no.1 on the Fide list, I would like to see him take two “post-Kasparov” records from Topalov:

1) Carlsen is currently leading on the rating list with 26 points, while Topalov had a 34 point lead in 2006.

2) Carlsen has been rated as No.1 for for about 2/3 of a year. He has to be rated no.1 on at least 12 more Fide list to surpase Topalov with his overall 2,5 reign as the highest rated player.

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Originally posted by pulern
Although Carlsen is no.1 on the Fide list, I would like to see him take two “post-Kasparov” records from Topalov:

1) Carlsen is currently leading on the rating list with 26 points, while Topalov had a 34 point lead in 2006.

2) Carlsen has been rated as No.1 for for about 2/3 of a year. He has to be rated no.1 on at least 12 more Fide list to surpase Topalov with his overall 2,5 reign as the highest rated player.

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Post Kas I assume you mean. If Carlsen needs to go after a record it would be that 2850 or so of Kas.

Originally posted by pulern
Although Carlsen is no.1 on the Fide list, I would like to see him take two “post-Kasparov” records from Topalov:

1) Carlsen is currently leading on the rating list with 26 points, while Topalov had a 34 point lead in 2006.

2) Carlsen has been rated as No.1 for for about 2/3 of a year. He has to be rated no.1 on at least 12 more Fide list to surpase Topalov with his overall 2,5 reign as the highest rated player.

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Topalov ducked serious competition for vaste patches during that reign. He was first preparing for Kramnik then Anand after. Carlsen was far more active, though i would imagine he will now limit himself to Super GM cat 21+ tournies as his rating will suffer playing so many patzers(!) (giggle)...

Originally posted by Marinkatomb
Topalov ducked serious competition for vaste patches during that reign. He was first preparing for Kramnik then Anand after. Carlsen was far more active, though i would imagine he will now limit himself to Super GM cat 21+ tournies as his rating will suffer playing so many patzers(!) (giggle)...

Yeah, those mere 2700 players, what do they know?🙂

Agree.
The ratings now are very much inflated.
Remember: The numbers (ratings) are only a statistical masure.
A number is NOT a measure of the quality.
You can't say a game is a "2600"-game.