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Rating deflation?! I believe there have only been five players to get 2800+. Topalov, Anand, and Carlsen did this within the last few years. Kasparov near his
by aquateen 17y ago
Rating deflation?! I believe there have only been five players to get 2800+. Topalov, Anand, and Carlsen did this within the last few years.
Kasparov near his peak: http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=1 http://ratings.fide.com/toparc.phtml?cod=1
Current top 100: http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men http://ratings.fide.com/top.phtml?list=men
I always viewed 2700 as the super-GM mark. That used to include ~10, but it's a useless standard now.
Kasparov steamrolled the competition.