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Player Dominance Index: 2018 edition

Player Dominance Index: 2018 edition

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I'm still calculating the Player Dominance Index (percentage of points scored in games against elite field; the rules of admission are discussed in previous posts). This is how the table looks now, after 2018 ended.

All results were taken from chessgames.com database.

  Player Notes Points%   W L D #g #o
Emanuel Lasker WC 66.34% 146 47 110 303 24
Garry Kasparov WC 64.09% 325 68 519 912 55
Jose Raul Capablanca WC 61.45% 85 22 168 275 23
Robert Fischer WC 59.70% 97 46 120 263 25
Alexander Alekhine WC 59.13% 150 72 205 427 22
Magnus Carlsen WC 58.26% +0.05 176 70 396 642 45
Anatoly Karpov WC 57.55% 341 151 766 1258 68
Viswanathan Anand WC 56.02% -0.17 305 158 758 1221 64
+1 Akiba Rubinstein 55.46% 107 74 121 302 20
-1 Vladimir Kramnik WC 55.42% -0.19 246 134 653 1033 56
+1 Mikhail Botvinnik WC 54.31% 112 76 230 418 33
+1 Vasily Ivanchuk FKCC 54.04% -0.06 284 189 703 1176 64
+2 Ding Liren 53.63% -0.04 31 18 130 179 29
+6 Fabiano Caruana WCC 53.39% +0.95 129 91 340 560 41
-1 Levon Aronian WCT 53.31% -0.46 168 117 485 770 48
+1 Paul Keres WCT 52.97% 120 88 330 538 38
-6 Wesley So 52.96% -1.63 44 29 180 253 34
-2 Boris Spassky WC 52.92% 189 135 602 926 51
-1 Tigran Petrosian WC 52.87% 143 100 505 748 39
-1 Lev Polugaevsky 52.78% 132 98 381 611 52
Aron Nimzowitsch 52.29% 63 53 102 218 19
Harry Pillsbury 52.17% 51 45 42 138 10
+1 Mikhail Tal WC 52.07% 157 125 490 772 47
-1 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave 51.92% -0.20 72 57 261 390 43
+2 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 51.75% +0.28 87 71 299 457 41
-1 Veselin Topalov WCC 51.70% -0.07 230 200 450 880 55
-1 Hikaru Nakamura 51.48% -0.18 115 99 326 540 43
Alexei Shirov FKCC 51.20% -0.11 237 215 466 918 63
Valery Salov 51.18% 87 79 174 340 46
+1 Viktor Korchnoi WCC 50.97% 330 304 712 1346 70
-1 Peter Svidler WCT 50.85% -0.13 157 143 525 825 59
+1 Efim Geller 50.64% 135 127 367 629 50
+1 Karl Schlechter WCC 50.63% 74 70 175 319 18
+1 Samuel Reshevsky WCT 50.55% 74 70 218 362 44
-3 Sergei Karjakin WCC 50.53% -0.23 98 92 377 567 40
Vasily Smyslov WC 50.41% 161 154 549 864 57
+1 Sergei Movsesian 50.00% 38 38 122 198 47
-1 Boris Gelfand WCC 49.95% -0.24 195 196 679 1070 60
Geza Maroczy 49.83% 66 67 161 294 23
Alexander Grischuk WCT 49.80% +0.01 84 86 339 509 48
Evgeny Bareev 49.78% 125 127 211 463 54
David Bronstein WCC 49.69% 92 95 301 488 42
Peter Leko WCC 49.67% 114 119 532 765 52
Alexander Khalifman FKC 49.61% +0.01 64 67 249 380 56
Wilhelm Steinitz WC 49.53% 81 83 48 212 9
Ruslan Ponomariov FKC 49.50% 74 78 252 404 52
Anish Giri 49.42% +0.02 58 63 308 429 38
Wei Yi 49.38% 14 15 52 81 26
+4 Ian Nepomniachtchi 49.29% +0.50 41 44 126 211 34
Teimour Radjabov 49.16% +0.12 66 74 336 476 49
-2 Alexander Beliavsky 49.12% 180 193 369 742 40
-1 Reuben Fine 48.97% 18 20 59 97 18
-1 Michael Adams FKCC 48.84% -0.05 179 200 526 905 65
Lajos Portisch 48.64% 178 204 575 957 56
Alexander Morozevich WCT 48.41% 112 126 203 441 52
Andrei Sokolov 48.33% 45 54 171 270 48
Zoltan Ribli 48.26% 48 61 264 373 52
Richard Reti 48.19% 60 67 66 193 14
+1 Dmitry Andreikin 48.05% +0.02 23 29 102 154 33
-1 Boris Gulko 48.03% 71 84 175 330 57
Milan Vidmar 47.93% 42 50 101 193 27
Leinier Dominguez 47.86% 37 48 172 257 40
+1 Bent Larsen 47.75% 168 195 236 599 51
+1 Judit Polgar 47.70% 124 148 250 522 60
+1 Savielly Tartakower 47.65% 94 113 197 404 29
-3 Nigel Short WCC 47.64% -0.12 182 219 384 785 70
Gata Kamsky FWCC 47.53% +0.01 119 146 281 546 60
Isaak Boleslavsky 47.39% 33 44 134 211 22
Jan Timman FWCC 47.34% 248 313 661 1222 69
Rafael Vaganian 47.32% 103 131 289 523 67
Salomon Flohr 46.99% 35 50 164 249 29
Robert Huebner 46.98% 98 135 380 613 60
Artur Yusupov 46.90% 113 153 379 645 60
Alexei Dreev 46.65% 62 87 224 373 56
Efim Bogoljubov WCC 46.58% 109 134 123 366 20
Max Euwe WC 46.35% 85 113 186 384 31
Mikhail Chigorin WCC 46.25% 95 116 69 280 15
+1 Andras Adorjan 45.95% 31 51 165 247 41
+1 Siegbert Tarrasch WCC 45.91% 87 114 129 330 20
+1 Vlastimil Hort 45.86% 71 118 379 568 50
-3 Rustam Kasimdzhanov FKC 45.83% -0.17 45 68 163 276 49
Henrique Mecking 45.80% 22 34 87 143 39
+1 Sergei Tiviakov 45.52% +0.20 42 66 160 268 50
-1 Frank Marshall WCC 45.40% 108 149 189 446 19
Vladimir Akopian FKCC 45.31% 50 80 190 320 55
Jonathan Speelman 45.03% +0.02 49 83 210 342 58
Joel Lautier 44.93% 77 120 227 424 54
Svetozar Gligoric 44.81% 100 175 447 722 49
Oleg Romanishin 44.74% 76 113 163 352 58
Miguel Najdorf 44.69% 56 92 191 339 36
Laszlo Szabo 44.68% 65 105 206 376 37
Kevin Spraggett 44.40% 19 32 65 116 34
Mark Taimanov 44.20% 70 120 241 431 47
Rudolf Spielmann 44.09% 85 128 151 364 21
Borislav Ivkov 43.84% 59 120 316 495 46
Wolfgang Ulhmann 42.45% 46 94 178 318 47
Joseph Blackburne 41.71% 49 79 53 181 16
Dawid Janowski WCC 41.67% 100 153 65 318 20
Robert Byrne 40.83% 19 52 109 180 35
Loek Van Wely 40.07% -0.10 99 216 274 589 61
Johann Hjartarson 39.77% 33 77 105 215 44
Christopher Lutz 38.44% 19 56 85 160 39
Eugenio Torre 37.88% 31 87 113 231 51
Isidor Gunsberg WCC 37.87% 32 65 39 136 15
Hou Yifan 34.74% -0.16 14 61 79 154 36

WC - was/is World Champion

WCC - World Championship Candidate (failed to defeat the champion in a match)

WCT - played in a World Championship tournament (either 1948 or 2007)

FWCC - FIDE World Championship Candidate (failed to defeat the reigning FIDE champion in the 1990s)

FKC - FIDE Knockout Champion

FKCC - runner-up of FIDE Knockout Championship

#g - number of games

#o - number of opponents

Deceased players are greyed out.