Magnus Carlsen on beating Garry Kasparov's rating record
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- On Saturday, December 8th Magnus Carlsen broke Garry Kasparov's chess rating record of 2851. By drawing with Hikaru Nakamura at the London Chess Classic, the Norwegian player will be certain of an Elo of at least 2856 on the January 1 FIDE rating list. In this video Carlsen talks about the game and about breaking the record.
Filming & editing: Peter Doggers
Carlsen's rating is so high because of the amount of times he beat nakamura lol Ironic.
lol true
Lol
🤪😝😂😂
And he does it again 🤣
"In the end, you always get what you deserve." - Magnus
Beautifully simple poetic and profound much like his demeanour and chess genius
Beautiful. In the end, we all get death. Just to make it clear.
@@ieBrazil death is beautiful ,i don't know why people afraid of it.
@@ayushmaurya1912 dont know if beautiful is the word for it, but yeah ppl are afraid of something that is always around us since the dawn of time
@@ieBrazil yeah you are right
Magnus, "I have a lot to learn." That's the difference. I'm rated 1600 and think I know it all already.
LOL
you are probably rated 1200, lol
"Again, I have a lot to learn. So we'll see..." Exactly, this comment coming from Magnus blew my mind! As long as he continues to keep this outlook the world of chess should continue to be interesting.
Lol Dexter Haven ...not exactly the words I would use, but very well said.
I come from e-sports and your attitude is of low rated players. It's the same everywhere. Any sport. Any profession. Everything.
Magnus talks alot about chess and is very social which is great for chess worldwide. Nice to see someone so open to the world about the game and his skill.
Can't help admiring Magnus. He seems to have such a level-headed view of what's happening. No doubt, he is a super genius among geniuses. I wish him the greatest success.
Indeed! He has had great success over the past ten years!
oh boy he did get that great success
magnus walks like he is about to break in hundreds of pieces
The music is far too intense for the content of this video.
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What an incredible accomplishment at age 22! I hope Magnus will get a shot at and win the WCC to cement his name right alongside the great legends--such as Fischer, Kasparov, and other world champs.
This aged well.
Incredibly well
:D
Indeed! He earned 5 titles and will go down in history as one of the greatest ever!
By his affect,and for other reasons,I believe that Magnus is fully invested in his chess career. The fact that he does many other activities does not mean he is not deeply given to the game.I feel Magnus is deeply competing with himself even more than the people he plays.And because the "voice" of THAT competitor is so unrelenting,I believe Magnus's"gentle"demeanor is merely a cloak that hides a ferocious chess lion.What a privilege to watch the seasons of this living legend.God bless you,MC !
And I'm struggling to keep a 1000 score
Remi Vézina that’s good
Are you still 1000. ??
@@DDKKAY haha
@@DDKKAY Lol no 1700
Mashallah
This guy looks like Todd from Breaking Bad.
i think you got it wrong, its todd who looks like magnus ; D
+Swiftness The human gene pool is actually very small, that's why.
secretspy1 As a none biologist, I am going to make a complete guess without any scientific backing what so ever. We are just very good at noticing differences between individuals and just because we have a very small gene pool doesn't mean that you can have relatively high diversity, but also high chance for people to look somewhat similar. Also, "small" is a relative term. The odds of finding someone that looks similar to somebody else is not that strange when the population is over 7 billion.
These posts are baseless
LOL. You're right. They could definitely be fraternal twins. You know, you can definitely tell theyre twins but not as alike as twins who shared the same egg. (Sry for bad biology. Been years since I studied). Either way. I laughed.
I think its pretty clear from their records that Fischer, Karpov, and Kasparov are all on a whole different level than "ordinary" GMs. It looks like Carlsen has joined them too.
Hikaru nodding his head at 1:23... priceless :)
Selim
Man, u made me laughed hard i akmost shit in my pants
he looks like a Justin bieber mixed with matt Damon in the Bourne identity lol
I'd go with Matt Damon from Good Will Hunting.
Harry Dzurica shawn mendes too
Damn he doe slook like matt Damon so I guess Matt Damon could probably be just as good in chess as he is. Ever heard of phrenology that's why I think he may have the qualities to be a great ches splayer like Magnus Carlsen.
Sorry to break it up to you guys but Matt Damon is Magnus's cousin. And that is the reason they look so much alike!
@@zarintasnim4093 April Fool prank by Chessbase back in 2010! :p
www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-players/magnus-carlsen-is-matt-damons-cousin
Ego problem? He's awesome for knowing he can still learn a lot. Thats what I love about chess, you can never stop learning.
when you achieved enough and have something to boast about then its not wrong,he just deserves that.
'They learn but they cannot improve'. That is the truest thing about chess I've heard anyone say for a long time. Knowing the difference will help a lot.
So many people can learn so much chess and not improve at playing the game. Rather sad really. Myself included.
Something to keep in mind: there is a huge inflation in the rating system. When I started to follow chess (1990). The very best players in the world were under 2700, with the exception of Karpov and Kasparov. Even a great player as Gurevich never broke the 2700 ceiling. Today even relatively unknown people (like Koborov was before the World Cup) are rated over 2700.
ppl also just got way better ^^
Spectrum of players was stretched
the diamond standard has raised from 2700 to 2800 between your time and now, even though as I say that with the recent chess boom and emergence of a larger player base it might even be raising from that soon as well.
Rightly deserved. If anyone follows Magnus' games, his moves (when he's playing well of course, everyone has some goof ups sometimes) are so accurate. Move by move, you can feel his position improving until he has won. This year in particular has been great. Take a look at the tata steel tournament, near flawless (and that's the elite division).
This music sucks. Who thinks it's a good idea to riddle an otherwise interesting interview with what sounds like the soundtrack to an MTV-addled heist film from the nineties?
shut up! the music fits perfectly
the beauty part true mate
Agreed!
"sounds like the soundtrack to an MTV-addled heist film from the nineties?" Win
That's not music...
There weren't as many top tier players 20 years ago. The amount of great players now is crazy. You'd have to be a machine to create a significant gap in your rating, or the greatest chess player of all time.
After 11 years, he is still number one
Yep!
4:47 Anand looking at Magnus like 'omg I'm in trouble'. 😅
Wow, I've never seen Carlsen look so confident before. I hope this confidence follows him into Wijk an Zee and the candidate's.
A very modest and realistic guy. I like him.
Haha, you ought to watch more videos of him, he's actually pretty arrogant
@@kaydenc9428 he has every right to be a bit arrogant
Anybody who can say "I have a lot to learn yet," and is sincere about it...is still on their way to getting better!!
Magnus will almost certainly be the next to become truly the "best ever."
as of oct, magnus has beaten anand twice according to nyt - One of Carlsen’s three victories in Bilbao was against Viswanathan Anand, the world champion - just his second in his career against Anand under regulation time controls. It was Anand’s only loss of the tournament, but he also won no games.
"Man, I really hate that Nakamura guy..." *1. h4*
He should break 2900, I can't imagine him not going on a big run somewhere in his career which culminates with a 2900 rating. He's only 39 points to that target. Incredible for his age.
He hasn't made it but I hope he will
Shows how hard it is because he is now about 20 points away from 2900 -- 10 years later.
Magnus is young and he can still achieve a lot in the future,
And so he did
Magnus "yeah i always win when it counts" gg sir..... gg.
Actually he participated in the Candidate matches but withdrew shortly thereafter because he felt the current World Champion had an unfair advantage of watching all of his potential future challengers tire themselves out while playing each other, and being able to see their strengths/weaknesses and play styles.
Capablanca perhaps. He was very strong in ending positions and combined a solid positional style with tactics. Paul Morphy is another contender. He was strong in open positions, tactically sharp and he knew how to defend.
Really it's difficult to decide; I find some players easier to watch than others and games between players of conflicting styles are one of the best things about chess. I'd give Dvoretsky an honourable mention: he set down modern ending theory in clear terms .. a good teacher.
Carlsen, at 13, played an active Kasparov, and Drew against him - a Draw that was the result of time issues, as his Position was winning; of course, time is a major factor in Tournament Chess, though I still believe Carlsen showed wonderful intuition.
He will become the first 2900 rated player within a year, it's looking like Fischer style dominance..go Magnus!
and it didn't happen xd he reached 2881 in 2014, although after beating Nepo he set out to reach 2900
It seems unlikely
@@parzival2114 did u really reply 8 years later
*Sigh* They still have WC Championship, this it will be between the current champion(Anand), and Carlsen, who qualified for it in April.
Ratings isn't anything new, either. And they are actually quite fair, I think it gives a very realistic view of how well contemporary players perform over time.
Carlsen himself said to a newpaper that one cannot compare a rating/score directly over a span of time, and said that ~2950 would be more accurate for descibing what Kasparovs peak would be like today
By the way, just for some of the watchers' information, ELO points most likely tend to inflate. A 2785 ELO of 1972 (Robert James Fischer's peak) is possibly not the same as 2015's 2785, research indicate. This is common sense when thought carefully though, for example Anis Giri has an ELO of 2798. Not to personally degrade him (I'm nowhere close to that anyway, haha) but I don't think he is anyway near Fischer's strength. This is just like GM title being hard to achieve back then. Many renowned players were IMs. For example Fischer was only an IM, or a new GM but I think he possibly was an IM, when he scored 11/11 in US Championships. Many players were later "gifted" the GM title years after by FIDE.
To summarize, comparing players of different eras using ELO is not a totally healthy way. But I think, logically, we can most likely say that a 2785 player from 1972 was better than a 2785 player from 2015. But even this is not reliable at all. Comparing 2850 with 2812 of 2000's is not at all either, as you could have guessed. Again, just because Carlsen has surpassed every player doesn't mean he could have beaten a 1990 Kasparov, 1971 Fischer, 1961 Tal, 1975 Karpov, 2000 Kramnik, 1918 Capablanca, 1930 Aljehin.
+Gani Fırat Erdoğan Rating Inflation is a myth. 50% of GMs are below 2500, 80% of active GMs are below 2580.
The median GM rating of active players is probably less 2520. I would be hard pressed to believe that it was lower 20, 30yr, or 40yrs ago. The top guys are just that good. I also don't see how 2000 Kramnik is so much worse than 2012 Kramnik. Kramnik was 36yrs in 2012, I don't believe he had grown significantly weaker since 2000. Carlsen is just very very good, give him credit.
+Marco Kimani I simply suggested that him having the highest ELO does not mean he is the best player ever, which is pretty much common sense but some people could have thought so.
Talking about inflation, I do not have the info nor the knowledge to prove or disprove it (afterall Elo was a mathematician). I was just stating a commonly thought thing which makes a lot sense to me considering Karpov's maximum rating of 2700 to a "regular" top 50 grandmaster's 2700.
Also the title of GM is a lot easier to get nowadays. For instance there were only 50 GMs worldwide back at the 1957(from wiki info). Nowadays it must be over a thousand.
By the way, have you checked Sonas's rating list? He has some interesting numbers and they are used by many professionals. I was surprised when I saw Botvinnik that high. Always thought he was one of the weakest champions.
And Carlsen, he is a great player, after all, we're speaking about a world champion. Of course he is given the credit, there is no need to say that.
Gani Fırat Erdoğan
I believe the GM to active player ratio is till about 1:10,000. I don't have the exact sources but someone did an analysis of this ratio on chess.com. - 1957 is 60yrs ago there were less than 3billion people on earth and probably 3% of active players today - add internet, cheap air travel and you have higher chances of finding strong players in the larger pool.
I will check Sona's rating list, do you have a link?
It's Alekhine not Aljehin
Agreed. Most people do not know how the Elo system works or even that if all players in a rating pool improve the average rating will remain pretty much the same. Anyone who disagrees needs to research how the rating system works.
OMG the song from 0:10 to 0:42 is the hybrid librarian theme song!!
Carlsen is a man that knows how to present himself! A good role model for anyone.
I agree with you; there does seem to be slight inflation in the rating system.
It also is a different game now with: huge databases; computer analysis and regular closed tournaments.
Not much between Anand and Carlsen in this upcoming World title decider; I think it could be a great advert for the game of chess.
lol at 3:29 he gives the good old "i can't believe you played that dumb move against me" look
I guess that would be a valid interpretation if Magnus Calsen was an American or British, but when Norwegians that that, it means "what a strange game" and that was exactly what it was. I wouldn't be surprised if you could agree with me this is exactly what it means in your language culture too, when you have given it a firmer thought.
More like I got to pass gas...
I'd say it was more frustration at not having won mixed with an attempt to be friendly and polite.
GOD OF CHESS : MAGNUS CARLSEN
I would love to see him improve even further. It would be wonderful to watch the greatest player for a few more years and hopefully watch some new masterpieces.
A little bit. You can't get a super-high ELO unless you perform good in a strong tournament. Tournaments of course get stronger as stronger players participate. Someone should check the stats, but take the average elo of the 10 best players today, and that of those 20 years ago.
This is the power of new mediums for communication. More accessible and larger databases, but not necessarily better than books, depends on how much and how quickly you can learn/remember.
Hi from 2022, all these comments aged beautifuly, he's now solified himself as the best to ever do it
1:38 I like how intense Hikaru and Magnus look meanwhile the board is 1. e4 c5
So from that video I got that Magnus considers playing under 2800 a "bad" performance? This guys is on another level :)
Resurrect Deep Blue against this guy! Qualifier: Do not change the program. Leave it as-is since it was designed to beat Kasparov. Should be interesting.
right I'd pay to see that
it was 17 years ago, and it was un-built since then. wikipedia says "In June 1997, Deep Blue was the 259th most powerful supercomputer according to the TOP500 list, achieving 11.38 GFLOPS on the High-Performance LINPACK benchmark". for comparison, modern iphone6 has about 100 GFLOPS
cool
z140140 - it's not about just the processing power, the programming is much more important. You can build a chess program with a supercomputer, one that is badly coded and it can lose to a one done with early 90s technology.
you want to see some scary shit watch the computer championships of chess. supercomputers breaking 0s and 1s down in a death match to achieve supremacy as the first bot to lead in the human takeover
He seemed humble enough to me.
my question is, who do you think is the best chess player of all time and why?
I still doubt it.
Fischer would have never been better than Kasparov.
Karpov maybe, but not Kasparov.
agreed.. I havent looked much into Fischer's case but the little I saw is that of a recluse but which isn't mad.
lol imagine all the GMs going "oh sh*t when they see Carlson show up"...."there goes my $50 entrance fee " XD lol
Wow! A blast from the past! Good recommendation!
White did a pawnstorm for 24-32 moves straight and black repeats knight to c6, knight to b8 ad infinitum.
thanks for the insight. I definitely heard about Capablanca. i'm a bit surprised b/c I thought you were going to inch towards Kasparov. being born in the states, of course fischer always comes to mind.
Kasparov's brashness and charisma is what made chess sexy. Kasparov is the greatest ambassador to chess since Bobby Fischer.
Carlsen is obviously a different personality, but he also refused to challenge for the world championship on frivolous grounds, so he ain't no angel either.
Now he is saying he won't play the championship in 2022
help me out here, who's the world chess champion, vishy anand? how is he rated below magnus, and why is nakamura not listed on the top rated graph? why magnus plays nakamura to get highest rating, why magnus and vishy anand not make constant matches for the world championship like kasparov and karpov matches
anyway magnus is confidence boost nice to see him that smiling alot, and he has lot to learn on chess that's nice too
"I wanna be world champion before 2020." -Magnus Carlsen
Everyone makes mistakes. Magnus does them as well, mostly in the openings (as 5 (?); D2 against Giri some time ago), but the one who makes the last mistake normally loses.
But he has "deep thoughts". How many plys do you have to count? The answer is 42 ;-)
1:22 Hikarus thinking "sweet, might get a kings gambit out of the deal" hahah i don't think he would play gambit against Carlsen but its fun to imagine.
Great, Magnus, you did it! Please stay - as you alwais did - by yourself and keep on smiling, playing the great game of Chess.
All the best, a fan-family (42, 37, 9, 7, 4) from Switzerland.
The problem is that there is no one higher than him , so it will be harder to gain big moves in his rating. And of course, if he loses, then he will drop quite a bit. Possibly the next World Champion.
Arguably already is the best chess player ever at 2856 and he still has a lot to learn.... Nakamura definitely gets intimidated and mentally distracted by Magnus, body language gives it away, I think if Nakamura could pretend he's playing someone else he would beat Magnus more often.
Chessvibes are the best videos out there. Only one out there TRYING to put some style to our game. Not too over the top, but style!
Magnus does play football (soccer) although I don't have any reason/evidence to believe he is the next David Beckham. I think CBS 60 minutes did a segment on Magnus where they mention he played football in his spare time.
I had a chess coach that gave me a provisional ratting back 20 years ago. He said I played about a 1600-1700 ratting. That was then. I think I may have maintained that. I am studying more than I did back in my teen years
Also, Nakamura is rated 4th in the world, so a draw against him or Kramnik or Anand would have given him the Rating jump he needed - I recall in the Summer when Carlsen was Drawing Games with Aronian (who, incidentally, is not too far from an accomplishment comparable to that of Carlsen's) and thinking that he was bound to top the Rating record on that basis alone.
Also, Anand is a top Tactical Player who - if he actually played in more than The World Championship Cycle (literally the only
Fischer had a coterie comprised of intellectuals who supported him in every imaginable way. Also, if Fischer was prepping during the time in-between 1972 and 1975, then I find it hard to believe he would have had much trouble against Karpov, a player for whom I've a great level of respect, enough so to be objective concerning his chances. (Given Karpov's performance against Korchnoi, another player who I hold in high-esteem, seems further proof in favor of Fischer's retention of the title.)
Magnus Carlsen breaks record; "Nah I think it's pretty cool."
he looks alittle like Federer.
I think it's the deep eye sockets or something.
Ok, thank you for the clarification.
You should look his biography. He had an IM as a teacher at 5 in a rich family. Now compares that to Kasparov life.
"its the biggest ashamement of my carreer"
whats the point of writing down all the moves when there are literally a thousand eyewitnesses?
When I worked in Moscow (in the early 90's, I visited the Central Club of the Socialist Soviet Republic in Gogolinski Boulevard and the main display case under numerous portraits of Russian World Champions, was a tribute to Bobby Fischer. I don't really understand Kasparov's style it relies on complicated tactics and I base my play on counter-attacking. I think Tony Miles has/had a style I like and understand (a fair bit of). I enjoy watching Nakamura's games, but I don't play chess like that.
3:57 The video starts
Fischer knew he would have no chance against a well prepared Karpov. He lost plenty to Geller and he knew that Karpov was much stronger.
His country let him down... and he refused to lose on their behalf, now they romanticize him and sing his praises. The truth is there was a chess genius looney and a Country that didn't give a f*ck about chess... end of story.
Where were you when Fischer needed you?
Great video.
Q1: what were they writing ??
Q2: did this game end with a draw ?? is that why he wasn't happy about it or did he lose ??
Newbie here.
If carlsen wasnt born, caruana would have been kasparov s challenger
actually Fischer said something like that first i believe
How might Mr. Carlsen do against the best computer program (whatever/wherever that might be) in the world? Anybody care to speculate?
+SatanISintheWorld! GetRightWithTheLORDJesus!! i would like to know this as well
+SatanISintheWorld! GetRightWithTheLORDJesus!! He'd lose ofc.
Elze77 i guess the only way to find this out is when it happens. but i think as well that modern computer would outclass every human being, but even super computers arent perfect and can get a processing error. nobody knows. would like to see this.
A computer calculates a ridiculous number of possibilities and have huge databases.
There are our references. We now learn from them.
Deep Blue beat Kasparov almost 20 years ago and I'd guess our phones are more powerful than Deep Blue ... x') So I let you imagine what about our computer.
+Elze77 I remember a cool quote from Kasparov from back then where he said something like, "The quantity of calculations becomes so great that it becomes quality." My thinking may be flawed, but, I wonder how a whole bunch of computer geeks with chess playing skills that may be very good compared to the average Joe could program a computer to beat someone that understands the game as thoroughly as Carlsen? To me it would be like saying one-million people whose math skills individually got them only C's versus someone that's an absolute math genius ... and then reasoning that the relative dummies would top the (single) genius because collectively they have far more gray matter.
carlsen in the thumbnail like -" chill bitches"
God bless Carlsen
I have read it like God beats Carlsen. I was about saying "no way, Carlsen is stronger" :D
You don't need to be able to change a light bulb, you just need to be able to have someone change the bulb whenever you want it changed.
@whiteshadow59 It's like asking whether Usain Bolt is good at anything else than running. Well, I don't know. But the important thing is that as long as they manage to breathe on their own, they don't have to be good at anything else.
Oversized ego? He is arguably the most gifted and talented chess player that ever lived. He hasn't done anything other than chess since he was a small child and he has broken records after records and is now at a spot in the world where literally noone can take him on and win
this guy will be legend
I think that's a bit disrespectful to Anand, who is one of the most talented players in history and fully deserved to become WC. It's not his fault Magnus didn't want to compete for the top title, only Magnus' and FIDE's (for their constant changes).
If you look at Anand and Carlsen's head to head I think Carlsen has only won once, a win in a match is hardly a foregone conclusion even though Carlsen has been playing far better chess the last couple of years.
They annotate the move itself.
Just the way he walks says: "Bitches are goin' down!"
very confident, as he should be
Crazy comes more often in chess masters and mathematicians for some reason. Something about the type of brain that excels in those areas is also susceptible to da-crazy. Magnus himself has said he's worried about going crazy.
For a moment I too would like to be Romantic and state that players such as those you've listed would never have dared get near a chess engine; as far as Fischer is concerned, we all know how he felt about computers and the mockery he made of them in 1977 at MIT.
No getting the highest rating ever is not his greatest achievement of his career at that point. His greatest achievement is showing his superiority over his peers.
Well thought out speculation.
He broke the rating record and yet he says he has still much to learn! That's why chess is fantastic...
well he is very frank... and direct.. both self-assertive but without being arrogant.. just factual.. to some it can come across as not modest perhaps, but let's face it.. that's because we aren't the #1 in fecking chess @ 21 :p but ye fore his age and the achievement he is very down to earth compared to say how Kasparov treated him as a 13 yr old. Kasparov KNEW that someone at 13 being alowed ot challenge him is unique up till then, and shows the immaturity of an adult, despite who he is.
so did his opponents though. don't get me wrong, i'm not a carlsen fan. it's just that i don't think the head start applies only to carlsen...