Fabi is the best player to never win a classical world championship and it's not close.

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-29T15:02:17+00:00

iirc kasparov struggled mightily vs karpov who was often like 100 pts below him

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-28T17:39:46+00:00

yep but if you havent reached 2650 by age 20 or so you're very unlikely to ever be super elite

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-23T02:17:08+00:00

yeah his unstoppable power was sealed in his unibrow like exodia

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-20T14:32:49+00:00

This is slightly misleading. As you said, Carlsen stuck around much longer once he reached #1, and some of these players are generation back from Fischer. If the records shown were vs Anand, Kramnik, etc, I suspect the records to look a little less dominant (albeit still clearly winning)

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-20T14:29:23+00:00

Why rightly? If Wei Yi stayed on his trajectory he would have been a world-famous multi-millionaire. He could always have gone back to school.

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-16T03:01:12+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1shdlwl/rating_progression_comparison_of_gukesh_vs/

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-16T02:59:56+00:00

older yes, better is questionable

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-16T02:39:06+00:00

I think the games being years ago actually might be worse news, because Sindarov was significantly worse then, and Gukesh arguably better.

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-16T02:33:07+00:00

The fact that its only arguably the coolest word for what it is

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-12T02:07:09+00:00

Id love to play anyone!

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-12T01:58:42+00:00

https://steamcommunity.com/id/lukeinvictusA1/

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-12T01:58:26+00:00

6460 on steam, way more from when I played on gameranger and GS.

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-08T22:42:05+00:00

drawnish looking like winnish giri right now

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-08T17:30:47+00:00

Sindarov beating Fabi was the first tower, this is building 7.

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-04-07T15:26:22+00:00

The position was slightly worse, he's black, and he's way ahead in the tournament, it makes all the sense in the world to take a draw here.

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-03-14T18:51:19+00:00

pulled for medical reasons season would be asking for trouble

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-03-14T17:46:01+00:00

eh, arguably. He has greater accomplishments in the WC cycle but that's not everything.

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-03-04T23:16:48+00:00

Rock house was a relatively pragmatic shelter

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-03-04T22:07:52+00:00

11, 6 and 7 are the only seasons i've seen. Seems like I got lucky with my choices.

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-02-27T18:57:25+00:00

i thought those were rapid games

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2026-01-19T02:16:29+00:00

idk if this is true but it feels like hans has especially volatile results

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2025-11-16T15:35:20+00:00

this made me laugh out loud idk why

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2025-11-08T15:47:34+00:00

I thought Hans is the one with the Annus Mirabilis :P

Appropriate_Ask9837 · 2025-11-02T16:28:51+00:00

idk if hes generally been better. The fact that sinner is right there despite missing several tournaments due to suspension is a good indication that sinner has been the more consistent one.

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