Tiger Woods (Golf), Ustan Bolt (100 m), Michael Phelps (8x Gold at the olympic games in Peking This are for sure the 3 Super Giga Mega Stars on our planet ... except ... ... there is Magnus Carlsen!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The norwegian chess sensation broke with his age of 23 years nearly all existing records. But there existed one record that was even for him seen as impossible to break ... to be world champion in all 3 categories of chess. 1) Standard Chess (between 1,5 hours to 2 hours for each player for a game) 2) Rapid Chess (between 45 minutes to 20 minutes for each player for a game) 3) Blitz Chess (5 Minutes for the full game for each player, it is very difficult) And folks, guess what this crazy (and very funny) boy did??? He won last year in November the world Chess Championship in a way that was never seen before in the history. He flogged the world champion Vishy Anand. The comment in a tv interview some weeks after this world championship title match from the now former world champion Anand He dominated me. I never had a chance. He is the strongest player that I ever played against. He could teach me chess, I would like to be his student. This are the words from a 5-time world champion in chess. And last week won the crazy boy the world championship title in Rapid Chess and Blitz Chess. This is to compare with a Grand Slam in Tennis. BUT ... there is one thing that was for every person a impossible task ... to get a rating higher as 2900 ELO POINTS. Even to talk about it was as insane classified. It is the same as you would ask Michael Phelps to win all swimming races in Peking with world record, even the qualification rounds, and he have to break his own world record always in the next race. That would have been in Peking 32 world records for Michael Phelps in one competition, a insane task to think about. How to get rating points in chess? Example: There is a tournament with 10 players, each player play against the others. You have a rating of 2200 Elo, which means that you are a Master Player. 4 of the other player have 2300 rating, another 4 players have 2100 rating, and one player have the same rating as you, 2200. That means that the average rating of all players is 2200 ELO. If you make now 50% of the points, you win and lose the same amount of games, then you played in this tournament a level of 2200 prating points. That means in this example that you confirmed your rating. If you win more games as you lose, your rating will rise, depending how many games more you win. If you lose in this tournament more games as you win, then your rating will go down. In this ELO calculation are many other factors included, like how many players played in this tournament. A short tournament with only 4 players have of course not so much weight as a tournament with 12 or more players. With this ELO rating point system is it possible to compare a player for example from argentina with a player from russia, even they have never played with each other. This are roughly the play levels: 2800+ for this Grandmasters exist no word (only 2 players at this level) 2700-2800 Super Grandmasters (at this moment exist 46 of them) 2600-2700 world class Grandmasters 2400–2600 most Grandmasters (GM) and International Masters (IM) 2300–2400 FIDE Masters (FM) 2200–2300 FIDE Candidate Masters (CM), most national masters 2000–2200 candidate masters, experts (USA) 1800–2000 Class A, category 1 1600–1800 Class B, category 2 1400–1600 Class C, category 3 1200–1400 Class D, category 4 below 1200 novices . . . . . . The former best player in the history of chess, Garry Kasparov set this mark to 2856, and this world record rating points was seen as a record for eternity ... And then came Magnus Carlsen ... 2400 = the youngest chess player ever to pass this mark. In this time played the 11 year old Magnus Carlsen a Rapid Chess tournament with a lot of Grandmasters, including the world champion Garry Kasparov and the world champion before, Anatoly Karpov. He beat in this rapid chess tournament with 11 years of age former world champion Anatoly Karpov, he took him apart. In the following round played the young Magnus Carlsen against the best player in the history of chess, Garry Kasparov. He (Magnus) had a big advantage when Kasparov offered him a draw. Magnus was so much intimidated from thsi Superstar that he accepted the draw. Kasparov was at this time world chess champion and on his peak. Kasparov said after this game that he has never experienced something like this and that this little boy will write chess history. If he continues to develop his chess skills with this speed, nobody can stop him, even not me was his words. 2600 = He broke as youngest player ever the 2600 rating, which world class grand master player. 2700 = He broke this mark as the youngest player ever, which means super grand master 2800 = He broke this mark as only the 7. player in the history ... and his rating was still rising (because of his good results against super class opponents) ... and his rating was rising and rising and rising ... 2856 = next record broken (Kasparovs record), Magnus Carlsen had now the best ever rating points in the chess history ... and his rating was rising and rising and rising His opponents could not follow the power of his game. He created a huge gap between him as world number one and the number two ... and his rating was rising and rising ... 2889 = this is his best rating ever. He lost now some rating points (now 2876), but this is for the other players still in the stratosphere while they are on the ground. And he will get very likely this rating points sooner or later back. And now the people who talk about the 2900 rating points are not anymore classified as insane ... . . . . . For you folks, who have no feeling what this means is here a example: 2900 rating points in chess can be compared with a 9.00 seconds running time for 100 meters. At the current moment is the world number two on 2804, no other players are in this level. This gap between the number one and two is the biggest in the chess history. In chess are 100 rating points difference are classified as one game level. This is to compare with one school year difference in a high school. The unstoppable rising of his rating points can be compared with Tiger Woods would win 40 of his usual 46 PGA Golf Tournaments that he plays in one year. . . . . . . A world class player and chess columnist said the following words about Magnus Carlsen: The chess world have never seen anybody like this. He plays in a other dimension. And what is the most frightening for the others ... he is still not on his peak!!!
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 08:16:12 +0000
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