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Carlsen stats

In the five years since Biel 2007 Magnus Carlsen has played 27 round robins. When the first of these events was played he was 16 years old and outside the top 15. Carlsen has finished top three in 26 of these 27 tournaments (the exception being Wijk 2009 where he was 0.5 from shared second place), and won the majority.

Carlsen’s results have been consistent for a player aged 16-21 that only plays top events. As a comparison Anand finished in the bottom half in some tournaments in 2011, and Kramnik was below top six in both his latest Tal Memorials.

Carlsen has performed 2815+ nine round robins in a row, and in 14 of the 15 latest. The list over the last five years looks like this:

Biel 2007 =1st +4 -2 =3 2753

Tal Memorial 2007 =3rd +1 -1 =7 2743

Wijk 2008 =1st +5 -2 =6 2824

Linares 2008 2nd +5 -3 =6 2808

Baku 2008 =1st +4 -1 =8 2795

Foros 2008 1st +5 -0 =6 2877

Biel 2008 3rd +3 -1 =6 2740

Bilbao 2008 =2nd +3 -3 =4 2768

Wijk 2009 =5th +2 -1 =10 2739

Linares 2009 3rd +3 -2 =9 2777

Sofia 2009 =2nd +3 -1 =6 2822

Dortmund 2009 =2nd +2 -1 =7 2773

Nanjing 2009 1st +6 -0 =4 3002 

Tal Memorial 2009 =2nd +2 -0 =7 2838

London 2009 1st +3 -0 =4 2839

Wijk 2010 1st +5 -1 =7 2822

Bazna 2010 1st +5 -0 =5 2918

Bilbao 2010 3rd +1 -2 =3 2718

Nanjing 2010 1st +4 -0 =6 2901

London 2010 1st +4 -2 =1 2815

Wijk 2011 =3rd +5 -2 =6 2815

Bazna 2011 =1st +3 -0 =7 2853

Biel 2011 1st +5 -1 =4 2833

Sao Paulo/Bilbao 2011 =1st +3 -1 =6 2842

Tal Memorial 2011 =1st +2 -0 =7 2849

London 2011 3rd +3 -0 =5 2875

Wijk 2012 =2nd +4 -1 =8 2830

Including non-classical events like Amber and the World Blitz Championship Carlsen has 13 round robins in a row with a 2810+ performance (last Amber starts = 2854 and 2880, latest World Blitz = 2894 and 2810, top three in all four events and wins in two of them). 

Counting from Nanjing 2009 Carlsen has scored 55 wins and 10 losses in these top tournaments, but even if his results improved in the second half of the five-year-period there are also some good results before the events on the list. The result just before the 27 tournaments was Dortmund 2007 where Carlsen was sixth (just ahead of Gelfand), but before that he shared second in Linares.

Comments

  • 7 months ago

    MSC157

    Damn! :) I had hoped Caruana won. But it would be definitely interesting to see, who is better at his peak (which is almost the similar one). Kasparov or Carlsen...

  • 7 months ago

    fabelhaft

    ...and another one:

    Grand Slam final 2012 1st +4 -1 =5 2876

  • 8 months ago

    MSC157

    Thanks for everything! I also consider Kasparov as the best chess player. We will see what will Carlsen do in the next few years. There's still a missing World Championship crown! :D

  • 8 months ago

    fabelhaft

    "Do you have some statistic for Kasparov too? Let's say, golden year...or 1999 to 2005?"

    Not in detail, but he won ten super tournaments in a row 1999-2002, and that is a string of results no other player ever has been close to achieve. Then he had a couple of comparatively weak years 2003-04, when he was third behind Leko and Kramnik in Linares 2003 and shared second with Leko behind Kramnik in Linares 2004 (+3 -1 =20 in those 24 Linares games). But I think Kasparov is the greatest player ever, so competing with his results when he was at his peak is hard, even if he did have some periods like 1995-96 when players like a young Topalov competed rather successfully in the same tournaments as Kasparov.

  • 8 months ago

    MSC157

    Do you have some statistic for Kasparov too? Let's say, golden year...or 1999 to 2005?

  • 11 months ago

    fabelhaft

    Adding to the list:

    Tal Memorial 2012 1st +2 -0 =7 2848

    Biel 2012 2nd +4 -0 =6 2878

    That makes it eleven round robins in a row with a 2815+ performance. Carlsen has finished top three 28 of 29 times the last five years.

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