Like a Kevin Bacon or Erdos number; if you're Magnus Carlsen your Carlsen number is 0, if you beat Magnus Carlsen it's 1, if you beat someone who beat Magnus your Carlsen number is 2, and so on.
I just clicked through my best wins, and their results and so on and couldn't find anyone who beat Magnus so my number is probably at least 5. But it should be possible using the lichess database to calculate this rigorously, right?
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Magnus number: 3
In bullet:
I beated
@spdmn , who beated
@kranty , who beated
@drnykterstein I think there are several ways for me to reach 3, one example is that i beat tacoface, who won against Night-King96, who then won against Magnus.
-1, created magnus carlsen jkjk
I have a Carlsen number of 2.
I played 1 game against GrandMasteR finegold during one of his streams.
Finegold played Carlsen one game.
So two?
Anyone who has played me is a 3.
This is not for "victories" of course, don't gotta beat Carlsen, Finegold lost to him, and I lost to finegold. It's how many players between you and Carlsen.
Degrees of separation?
3 (otb classical)
Once I won a tournament game against Florian Armbrust.
Armbrust-Shirov 1:0
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1772216Shirov-Carlsen 1:0
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1479215The better Question would be: What is Carlsens Thibault number?
I have a number of 2. I once beat a very young Nakamura OTB.
BTW, my Fischer number is also 2. I beat Bisguier in a simultaneous exhibition. Through my lucky win against Nakamura, I have the number of 2 against every modern champion, and Bisguier probably gets me back to Botvinnik.
