What is your Morphy Number, and from whom did you inherit it?

7

no 8 bc mittens played hikaru who played magnus

My bad, it's actually 6. Hikaru has an MN of 4

Seven at most. I (7) played my friend @electrosaw (6), who played Magnus in blitz (5), who has played Korchnoi before (4), who has played Botvinnik (3), who has played Tartakower (2), who played Mortimer (1), who finally played Morphy (0).

wow! i remember when you were in the 1600's (because we were in rss). your improvement is very impressive. nice going.

(sorry, blueman. if a have a morphy number, it is likely so far out it resembles the string of numbers for pi)

Correction: mine is 4.
I lost a competition game to Sammy Rubinstein, who in a training match played his father Akiba Rubinstein, a 2.

Mine is zero probably

It means that you are Paul Morphy.

Almost definitely 5.

Thanks Al.

I'm not sure if Morphy is the "best-known chess master in history" (aside from American chess history of course), but he's certainly one of the best; and much less controversial than that OTHER famous/infamous American chess master icon. (Fischer)

6

I played mittens

(technically doesn't count because i used stockfish the entire game but idc)

6 than

@34

My Fischer number is 2: I played Janosevic.

Idk my fischer number

my griffpatch number (being followed by griffpatch on scratch.mit.edu) is 3

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You got your MN from Rubinsteins son? That's crazy. I got mine from a bot.

very cool

my hikaru number is 3

i played a friend who has played hikaru in some arena once

It's 2 then, not 3.

Yup.

Hikaru himself is Hikaru-0. Your friend is Hikaru-1. You are Hikaru-2.