@Matthew Jester the original comment purposefully omits context. That's the whole joke. Either that or he's an idiot, but I'm going to assume the former.
@@mariusschatz7431 the term chess tactics basically means a sequence of a few moves that wins material, like puzzles - forks, mates, pins etc. I dont think engines matter much there.
Kasparov became number #1 rated player when he was 19 and kept that title till he retired. Carlsen will have to keep the #1 rating till 2033 to match Kasparov's performance. That will be hard as fuck to do as many young players are coming up
@embrace reality You grade it by the gap. Yes all-time ranking, by like 50 points between the 2nd Current player. Not much better. I'm sure of Morphy or Fischer was born in this time period. They'd probably destroy Magnus
@@johnwayne8494 Well I'm sure the amount of medical attention that was possible to give a person in that time was much less then during the mid to late 1800s when he died.
@ERIC 9 He certainly knew a bit of military battle tactics considering that he won multiple battles. While it is true that generals like Agrippa did a lot more then he did but considering that Augustus was an administrator and not a person known for his military genius it's still impressive. Also I don't know why it matters so much he doesn't have to be a good general to be a good Emporer most Emporers weren't generals including good ones.
11:44 Hikaru: "So I've beaten Gata Kamsky, I've beaten Alexei Shirov, I've beaten Boris Gelfand, I've beaten Evgeny Bareev, I've beaten Topalov, I've beaten Karpov, I've beaten Ivanchuk, I've beaten Kramnik, I've beaten Anand, and Garry I've never played a classical match against him so it doesn't count" Also Hikaru: *c'mon that's not a flex*
Oh that's interesting why he didint mention that he was also crushed by them?. There is a funny video of Hikaru Being such a bad loser against Shirov :)
@@oscarb1369 why did he need to say that? Everyone knows that he can or problaly have lose to anyone of then. Here, him are talking about what he alredy have achieve. Not what he doent
Why are people overreacting, "He didn't say he lose to them so he's fleixng" or some sht. It's not even a big deal for someone to say that he doesn't need to mention every time he lose to somebody everytime he says he won against somebody. Stop putting meaning behind his words when it is not even objectively correct.
I liked how he paused perfectly on 1971 when Bobby was soaring over everyone else and chat just freaked out and then he unpaused it and the graph immedietly took a u turn and plummeted and chat had a mental breakdown. Unintentonal, but hilarious
moistrictical is above the chart, the camera would need to zoom out. Especially after the spike he had after winning against grandmaster XQC with only 6 moves
moistcr1tikal was rated 9999999999999 at his lowest. Everyone knew he was, and is the best player so they just ignore him. Beating a grandmaster in 6 moves is easy for him.
7:20 I love when Hikaru starts talking in circles like that. Feels like that one Broadcast fail "10 people died last night during a fire that killed 10 people during a fire last night"
by the house where he lived theres like theres a plaque and um theres a plaque stating that thats the house where he lives so i did go by and see the house where he lived in um in in riga
@@TarePandaHelp because hes a pepega, i didnt get coached by hikaru and am absolute trash at the game but i still saw moisty's move coming, xqc is a level 10 pepega, the special kind. Hikaru couldnt have done anything to redeem his lost brain
@Bryan Black They will label anyone as "schizophrenic" or "crazy" whenever people question jewish influence. The media was dogging on him 24/7 so of course he was gonna bite back. He just realized the truth and decided to live abroad and not take part in the system. He was part jew ffs does that not give you a clue that maybe he had something important to say on the matter?
I imagine the dip in morphies score was due to him getting bored with the game and playing less. I MEAN towards the end of his career, he was playing blindfolded, with less pieces, and a 5 round deficit against the best players at the time! If anything, it was boredom.
One dude continued his chess career to 69 year old, so he could have broken world records with how many years he was dominating as world best chess player, so it was stupid to him stop ches in his early 30s then.
Apparently he didn't even take chess that seriously, he was more interested in studying law. Plus there were no great players for Morphy to learn from, no engines, not a lot of books to learn theory etc. So his rise and peak, at least for me, is the best.
You don't lose any rating points from stopping playing. But after a while your rating becomes deemed inactive and isn't used for any leaderboards. Any drop in rating that you see is because they were STILL playing not because they weren't. So alot of players played into their old age and dropped in rating because they were no longer at their peak. When the line disappears completely, it is because they became inactive or died. You don't lose rating from being inactive.
@@peterbedford449 not that kind of drop, I'm talking about people like fischer and morphy dropping. This chart doesn't take them off the board when they retire from chess.
@@peterbedford449 Bobby Ficher and Paul Morohy both were still so young and then their rank start to drop and then they just stop playing chess at so young age, when I wonder that, when they could brake world records with how long they dominated the 1st place in chess.
@@naj4261 Yeah I mean, America as a nation, entirely deserved. The people in the towers? Probably didn't deserve it. But the whole "bombing everybody" and "arming terrible organisations" couldn't possibly be more accurate, apart from maybe with the slight addition to make it "bombing everybody with any oil that we want"
Duck Sargent I think the worst thing about the USA is that they always try to have or try to seem to have the moral highground in conflicts(example:cold war). A lot of people also seem to forget how the cold war was started by the USA by stopping west German reperations going to the Soviet Union and the Truman doctrine. The USA doesnt have its power because of the moral highground, but it does have the moral highground because of its power. Another thing that I dislike about the USA is propaganda, because its disguised. This is the difference between the Soviet Union and the USA, one didnt try to hide its ugly face.
@@centralprocessingunit2564 no ur the toxic community. Elitists that defend the game from everyone else are hurting the chess community more than some twitch streamers
@@zsamich he is just memeing,dont be too serious.Just like French soldiers were called "only good at running away" but people from france couldnt care less
Interesting to see that there is many patterns where if the leader is on top clearly alone, his curve comes down. And when there is new wave of players giving challenge, then the curves goes up in pairs. For example Lasker goes on top and after dominating alone his curve comes down. But then emerges Capablanca and their curves shoots sky high together. This shows how important the rivalry is for the overall level or peak. No competition, no high score and vice versa.
Even if we only count people who lived to 18, average life expectancy today should be much higher since we don't have to deal with Polio, Cholera, etc.
Gary on top for over 23 years. What a freak of nature run. Might say he’s the best ever in the modern era. Edit: also, Alexander petrov was top ten for 40 years? Gosh.
@@lordspongebobofhousesquare1616 You have to take in to account that chess is more competitive than ever before, so its harder to stand out more when almost every chess strategy have been revealed, and its easier to get access to information you need to improve.
and now he really is officially going to be number two on fide (not just live ratings, which was what it was a few days ago) when the fide updates official ratings at the end of the month. Now he's won Norway chess 2023 and there's no other fide events that will affect the top rankings for the rest of the month.
According to Jeff Sonas the greatest gap was between "who is this guy" Steinitz and Henry Bird: 199 points. Then comes Fischer and Spassky, 146 points.
Morphy was such a god. Sat comfortably above the next best player by hundreds of points, and quit the game because it was too easy. He went to a chess club once, with some very strong players, gave them all odds and still won most games. Way ahead of his time.
the letter в is v in Cyrillic alphabet but at the end of a word it sounds like and f. (grammar rule). so most foreigners will read Petrov but if a Russian sees it he`ll know that v sounds like an f.
1. Thou Shant Lewd Kaori most competitive chess players play for their whole life and never get grandmaster, most chess players who do become grandmasters spend over 10 years trying to do so - overwatch was released less than 5 years ago and already had thousands of grandmasters. if chess was released less than 5 years ago like overwatch was you wouldn’t have any grandmasters. You don’t spend 6 hrs on 1 match in overwatch but you do for 1 game in chess (in competitive play). You can’t compare them really.
@@Neonb88 no, he wasn't. Life expectancy was lower centuries ago mainly because of higher infant and general mortality which dragged down the average. Humans have always lived until their 80s, 90s, etc. just to a less frequent degree than today.
@@NippleOfOdin Well, you can't just go by the longest-lived people to compare eras. At some point you've got to include some sort of average age. So, Nakamura was not that far of.
@@davidhoekstra4620 hikaru's pretty wrong in the fact that it wasn't uncommon in the 1800s for people to live well into their 60s and 70s. if you take away all of the deaths before 5 years old then the average age is quite close to ours.
@@jettaeschroff6924 If you take away all Jameis's Interceptions his QB rating would be close to Tom Brady's. That would be an atrocious distortion, however. In any case it would be reasonable for Hikaru to suppose that the life expectancy of someone in their 40's would be significantly lower in the 1800s than it is now.
If Fischer hadn't quit, he could've quite possibly dominated for a few more decades. Because he wasn't a product of his time, he was ahead of his time. Kasparov also could've potentially continued to dominate, but he decided to quit while he was ahead and tried to pursue politics. So it's not so much that they "got knocked off", rather they chose to retire. Although who knows, Fischer may've never retired if the politics had gone more smoothly for him.
The brain slows down... for example most of the greatest mathematicians make their best works before being 30 (not that there aren't plenty of people what achieved important results after that, but still...)
Libor Kundrát They’re not tough to categorize. Fabiano was born in Florida and now plays for the American Chess Federation (or whatever it’s called). Wesley immigrated to the U.S. and plays for the American Chess Federation. It’s just simple as that.
Hi Hikaru. If you look closer, during and after WWI, you will notice that Lasker and Capablanca broke 2800, as did Alekhine and Botvinnik before and after WWII. The dominance and quality of those players should not be forgotten.
Just some information for everyone, even if some players reached 2800 in rating, it's not 2800 really. From 1910 to 2010, CMR (Chessmetrics) was used which has a different rating system and the inflation is much higher. As an example, the CMR rating gives Bobby Fischer a rating of almost 2900. In ELO, however, it's actually 2770~.
@@haakonhamer9122 I'm not completely sure, but I think it actually deflated instead of inflated the ratings. Also, you probably saw, for example, EDO/CMR. Abacaba probably calculated the average between the ratings before switching fully to CMR in 1920.
Good, i was surprised that bobby fischer even got close to 2900, cuz im pretty sure that carlsen had the highest in history and he achieved 2882, thankyou for this information.
@A 1000 Lmao you make it sound like he left because he was scared or something, you know as well as I do he quit for different reasons. The soviet union was pumping out grandmasters with huge amounts of funding for their players, Fischer comes along and easily polishes them off left and right. And yes he was a real champion.
Just to explain the rising and falling of the curves: the Elo-System behaves more like a currency than an absolute rating. So the distance to other players tells you more than the absolute value of their rating. A falling curve *could* mean that everyone gets worse, however it is more likely, that everyone gets "more even". The elo rating is also proportional to the whole "population" of players. Because technically, every player *can* influence every other player (if you would play everyone vs everyone). I also think the graphs are drawn curvier than the ratings actually were, because if you stop playing, your rating does not decay (which is a big flaw in the FIDE rating pointed out numerous times). This is why you usually only rate "active" players (whatever that means in your context).
I agree. Going by the distance to other players of his era, Fisher was the best. No way anybody could have gotten as many draws against him in a match as Caruna got against Magnus.
Reponses to Hikaru's questions/remarks: 1) People lived to be 60 in the 1850s, if they got through their childhood OK 2) What happened in the early 1900s: Lasker semi-retired from chess, hence his rating dropped 3) First player to cross 2800: Capablanca in 1915. The other players to cross 2800: Lasker in 1916, Alekhine in 1928, Botvinnik in 1944, Fischer in 1966, Karpov in 1974, Korchnoi in 1978, Kasparov in 1982, maybe Ivanchuk in 1992 (not clear, he's scratching it), Anand in 1995, Kramnik in 1996, Topalov in 2006, Carlsen and Aronian in 2010, Caruana and Grischuk in 2014, Nakamura in 2015. 4) Largest gap: Morphy by 170 in 1857. Other large gaps: Steinitz by 150 in 1873 and 1876, Capablanca by 110 in 1921, Botvinnik by 120 in 1946, Fischer by 130 in 1972. Kasparov led the third rated player by 130 points in 1989, but #2 Karpov was only 30 points behind. Similarly, Lasker led the third rated player by 120 points in 1899 (spoiler: Tarrasch), Alekhine by 120 points in 1931 (spoiler: Capablanca), and Carlsen by 100 points in 2014 (spoiler: Aronian).
2:38 back then the average life expectancy was so low because 50% of people died before the age of 5. If you lived to become an adult, you could very much expect to live until like 80
von de Lasa gave us the von de lasa attack in games like the Bc4 - Ng5 attacking variants for White in opening like the Scotch Gambit. he was also important in helping finalize most of the rules of modern chess. You can read about him in Staunton's book "Chess Praxis"
I barely stand idiotism: "can he play chess at 61? do people live so long at all?"And when he hit genius point-> " russian imperial music " I stopped watching.