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0:00 Intro
0:36 Magnus Carlsen – 2889
6:48 Kasparov – 2856
12:04 Caruana – 2851
19:15 Aronian – 2835
24:07 Topalov – 2826
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Its official, Hikaru is the end game boss of chess, you beat him in champs you break records lol.
2:27 you recorded this video 8 YEARS AGO?
Levy's chess history commentary is something else. It is quite contrasting to his recap commentary and that makes both of them very fascinating to me.
iirc the format was for classic chess with standard /long time controls? What was the highest rating achieved for Fischer random?
Cool idea, enjoyed it. 2 other ideas: Biggest blunders in super GM chess. Biggest upsets (like the lowest rated players to beat 2700+ rated players).
and how about you? be a youtuber teaching all the chess but the ranking?
Just remnding everyone that Hikaru doesn't care that three of the highest peak ratings of all day were achieved by playing against him
I heard this guy way kinda good.
Magnus stands on the shoulders of giants.
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I'm new to your channel and want to say I love your content. I feel as if I learned more about chess here than anywhere else. Thank you.
How about the opposite of this? Lowest chess ratings of all time! 😉 sounds like hysterical content!
10:34 rook what are you doing? lol
damn hikaru steady handing out highest ratings left and right
10:59 Ah yes, the Wooden Shield.
I would like to c u commenting a football match, City-Real or so 👍👍
Do a sequel
Hikaru is such a nice guy by making their opponents get their highest rating ever
Man hikaru is really out here dropping the spaghetti and handing out highest ratings
Idea for similar video: top 5 most lucrative games played (prizepools)
Hikaru guards the door to greatness!
The whole chess community now : wooo we made it
Day 256 of translating Levy’s titles into Italian: „Magnus Carlsen: il punteggio più alto di sempre!“
There are 18 players within 115 point rating of Carlsen…these chess ratings are inflated ridiculous..when Fischer was at his best, he was higher by 120 points OF THE NEXT HIGHEST RANKED PLAYER… until some mathematics professional figures out these actual rankings relative to time and computers and inflated number, Fischer will still remain the highest ranked GM relative to the competition EVER ..there are ten people who could conceivably beat Carlsen.. there was maybe 2 players at the time who could conceivably beat Fischer…plus the game is so bad as Fischer posited because of the theory everyone just memorizes..in a game of Fischer Random, Fischer would beat Carlsen 10 out of 10 times
26:27 I was like "what is the stupidest and weirdest looking move in this position? g5 maybe?" and it actually gets played
Hikaru has helped everyone get their highestr ratings or rankings I swear.
So Hikaru is basically the final boss you have to beat to get a highest rating.
I thought the highest rating is more than 2900
One point to note about Levy’s videos: Whichever side Levy’s board is on, is the side which won.
Hikaru is the final boss
Great content, terrible hoody
You are actually wrong his highest rating is 2882. Are you even a fan???
This was excellent. Great commentary. Thank you!
I think you did a disservice by going from 1 to 5 i thought it should have been from 5 to 1 at least to build up hype.
Had, then a few days ago: 1873, after final:1850.
Youre 2772 but anatoly karpov peaked at 2780, shows that elo is getting inflated as time goes on
That was a fast 30 minutes!
Hikaru is the final boss of chess, if you beat him you appear in the hall of fame.
Can he do it on a rainy Tuesday night at Stoke tho?
Old video, but I had a random chess thought that belongs here for relevance. I think that 2900 will be broken sooner than usually predicted. Reason? Mobile and miniature devices. I realized that older desktop-style screens are designed to keep everything in view, with taskbars, etc. But smaller devices force you to develop visualization skills, if you want to efficiently handle any complex procedure on a small device. The generation growing up fluent in these devices might get enough bump in visualization skills to surprise us, or at the least the world might find it easier to spot grandmother talent over time bc of the Internet anyway. Also – thanks for the great vids, Mr. Levy.
You can't reliably compare players from different eras.
Gotta report Hikaru for feeding
Today modern gms rating just fake, 2800 now play like 2700. Hikaru 2800+,but we all know karpov 2700+ much much better
Today modern gms rating just fake, 2800 now play like 2700. Hikaru 2800+,but we all know karpov 2700+ much much better
8:46 “you bought a nice house, and you built it.” Most inspiring quotes of 2022
Hilary has a Leo of 3500 plus
This magnus guy is getting pretty high…
Alternate title Hikaru getting farmed by GigaGMs for world records
hikaru giving everybody their highest score
Highest rating ever is Bobby Fishcer, but Levy enjoys content that is panderin to his fans