Note: The y-axis is a rating of how well chess players compete against each other. This rating varies over time, from EDO to CMR to ELO, because different data sources cover different periods of time.
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‘Mind Over Matter”
Jay Man – OurMusicBox
“Rynos Theme” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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EDO Historical Chess Ratings by Rod Edwards (1809-1920)
ChessMetrics Performance Ratings by Jeff Sonas (1910-2005)
(mistakenly says 1915 in the video)
ELO ratings from the FIDE website (2000-2016)
I used cubic interpolation between data points when necessary (EDO and ELO) and applied a 6-month blur to the CMR data to make the lines smoother and easier to follow.
4:06 Tal 😍😍🤩🤩
please do till 2021
Carlsen is becoming GOAT.
European domination.
1:35 Ignatz Kolish turned on the cheats.
1:39 Ignatz Kolisch banned.
Didn't realise James Mason was so good at chess. He was a damn fine actor.
2:16: Lasker has joined
3:17: Lasker has left
1970 bobby god damn
In my opinion Bobby probably hit the highest peak on that chart
4:26 2893
Bobby was 2893???
Oh, Man, how many people in the world can make visualizations like this perfect one?
I tried all options in flourish studio for bar chart race, and there was not even 30%, I guess, in comprasion from what you have
I heard from you, that this work takes a lot of time… Python, Java, … scary words like cubic interpolation, omfg
I barely know python, and never programmed in Java
But I wanna do visualizations like you make, I'm not sure in my "ability to work" with new things
How many times can it take from me? To be able to do just 50% of what you can do, whoah
Fun fact :
Highest elo rating
1. Bobby fischer 2893
2. Magnus carsen 2882
3. Capablanca
4. Lasker
5. Kasparov
4.
The idols my game:Polerio,Howard Staunton,
Vishi Anand,Max Euwe,Geza Maroczy,
Tartakower,Rubinstein,Andrew Mestel,
Frank Marshal,Tsukertort
3:15
Bobby Fischer solo miren ese ELO
3:16 comes The executioner alexander alekhine, 😎
Vladimir kramnik???
how did you even make this video
Adolf Anderssen 1851 (??) No Aparece.
(M.08.Febrero.2022).
Do an update and include AlphaZero.
Botvinnik peak was 2630, what are these ratings?
Kolisch lost his streak, what happened?
What program was used to makes this?
If ever someone beats Magnus, we need to update this video.
the guy at 0:56 really just died
Ive never been a fan of chess but damn this is good
No women, apparently.
some of the rivalries:
de la bourdonnais vs deschapelles
staunton vs von der lasa
anderssen vs neumann
zukertort vs steinitz
tarrasch vs steinitz
tarrasch vs lasker
capablanca vs lasker
alekhine vs lasker
capablanca vs alekhine
euwe vs alekhine
botvinnik vs alekhine
smyslov vs bronstein
tal vs petrosian
spassky vs fischer
karpov vs korchnoi
karpov vs fischer
karpov vs kasparov
anand vs kramnik
My friend recently just started chess (May 12th 2022) and hasn't played it before. Mainly it was for fun and playing against each other, with experience over them. I won mostly. But in the past 2 days they have went from; below 200 rating to 1500 rating with only 5 days of experience. I'm just asking if thats even possible?
fun fact: it took 95 years for someone to reach 2800 (Capablanca, Feb 1915)
First to 2200: Alexander Petrov, Jun 1814
First to 2300: Aaron Alexandre, Aug 1818
First to 2400: Alexandre Deschapelles, Sep 1820
First to 2500: Alexandre Deschapelles, Sep 1820
First to 2600: Alexandre Deschapelles, Sep 1820
First to 2650: Louis de la Bourdonnais, Dec, 1835
First to 2700: Paul Morphy, Nov 1850
First to 2750: Paul Morphy, Feb 1853
First to 2800: Jose Raul Capablanca, Feb, 1915
First to 2850: Jose Raul Capablanca, Feb, 1919
If you like this sort of thing, I strongly suggest you play it at half speed (.5). It makes it a lot easier to follow reading the names as everything is fluctuating all the time and the music slows down to a cool almost trancelike vibe.
Normal speed was too fast with all the names & numbers changing so rapidly. Anyway half-speed worked great for me, give it a try.
1) Bobby Fischer 2893
2) Garry Kasparov 2882
3) Mikhaïl Botvinnik 2882
4) Magnus Carlsen 2878
5) José Raul Capablanca 2870
6) Alexander Alekhine 2854
You guys REALLY like Botvinnik. 👍
..even if it was short..Bobby Fischer 2893 I think is highest rating ever.
Bobby Fischer at 4:26 of the video (Jan 1972) reminds me of Secretariat in 1973 Belmont stakes..no #2 even remotely close..thats insane.
Who defeated casparov its "vishy anand"…….
The numbers are wrong… those in the past were given well over 2800 when they never achieved that.
Shout out to Efim Bogoljubov for holding the #1 spot for less time than anyone else, a little 2-month blip in 1926 (3:14).
Emanuel Lasker 1894 – 1921 = 27 Years WC 2:15 – 3:16 😳
Respekt to all Chessmasters….best "Overview Video" Thanks!
Needs an update till 2021!
Lasker was the longest at the top. He also wrote philosophy and studies of mathematics. One of great geniuses of history.
Music types :
0:16 Start to fast forward
0:21 When Aaron started
0:41 When Deschapelles
over the top over the top
In 1:11 Paul Morphy appears, age 12, above everyone else. Damn, what a genius. Wonder what happened to his life to cause this steep decline from 24-31.
Time for an update to 2022
Wilhelm Steinitz was older than Paul Morphy, Fischer nearly 150 Rating above everyone else, Kasparov vs Karpov for 15 years, Lasker comebacking at the age of 55 and how some people were just forgotten
Wrong flag on Réti. He was from Czechoslovakia – today Slovakia
Kasparov was the player who informed me existence of a game named chess after his games againts AI Deepblue. But Tal, Fisher and Nezhmetdinov are the players who provided me to love chess.
I'm always somehow puzzled about Botvinnik. He was clearly the strongest player between 1938 and 1948. And yet, during his reign as official FIDE world champion from 1948 to 1960, he was rarely, if ever, number one. It seems, Reshevsky, Bronstein and Smyslov were #1 at various times during the 50s (but with Botvinnik following as a close #2).