I consider MC‘s domination in such an extreme dense competition by far higher as that domination in the desert in the past.
Moreover, if MC plays 7 hours games and wins they would have adjourned the game a couple of times in the past, moaning.
Maybe but for some reason, I have this image of old masters killing our current masters if they only had the same tools as our current masters have. Mainly I guess it has to do with analysis work, which I have no doubt that the old masters were better at.
#42, they were masters of the analysis - that‘s why they played more errors in their games compared to today and their books contain not few of them.
Because way back there were no engines these old woodpushers were elevated to mythical heroes. No, I don’t believe in that myths. They were the best at their time, right. But no match for modern masters.
Alekhine was so dominating that he even lost his title in 1935...
Carlsen is 64 ELO ahead of Caruana, 80 ELO ahead of Ding and 100+ ELO ahead of every other chess player in the entire world. Kasparov's record is 79 ELO ahead of the world number two but 1.) He was 100+ ELO ahead of the world number six, not the world number 4 and 2.) Back then ELO was calculated every six months, not every month as it is today which makes it much harder to win ELO.
Carlsen is better in an absolute sense but that's always going to be true. The young players learn from the older players and then add to it. Add engines to that and modern players SHOULD be much better.
But in a relative sense he hasn't proven he's in the same class as the all-time greats. Fischer beat an entire super power country by himself and his run through the candidates to the wc was as dominant as anyone has ever been. Would Carlsen have been able to do the same if he had been born in the US in 1943? I seriously doubt it. I'm not sure anyone who has ever lived could have done what Fischer did and Carlsen's draw after draw isn't doing a lot to change my mind.
I'm just adding that I think Finegold is both serious and also dramatizing things a little for affect. Its clever because a lot of people end up talking about him and that is probably only going to increase his audience. I've met him and he seems like a nice guy. I think he puts on a show for the internet.
I almost played him at a tournament. Unfortunately I played the GM seeded right next to him in the first round :(
That tourney was a couple of months ago actually
I saw on his latest youtube video that he says Carlsen is in the top 5 or 6 of all time.
Sarg0n makes great factual arguments, he hits nails on their heads
Alpha30 is a true scholar and his lines of thinking are very interesting, lots of perspective
Fischer was not from this world
Magnus Carlsen is amazingly talented and no one alive can match him I believe
That's my 2 cents
