How many times Magnus Carlsen defeated Viswanathan Anand?
LIFETIME RECORD: Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Viswanathan Anand 12 to 8, with 51 draws. Including rapid/exhibition games: Magnus Carlsen beat Viswanathan Anand 33 to 20, with 80 draws.
How good was Kramnik?
For those wondering how strong Shirov is, he was rated number three in the world in 1994, at a whopping 2715 Elo, just below Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov—wow! Not only did poor Vladimir Kramnik not win the match, but he didn’t win a single game against a very strong Shirov.
Who will defeat Carlsen?
For the second time in just three months, 16-year-old Indian Grandmaster Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu defeated world champion Magnus Carlsen, with the latest victory coming on Friday at the Chessable Masters online rapid chess tournament.
What did Kramnik say about Carlsen?
Amid the predictable questions about the draw and match strategy, a Norwegian journalist noted that ex-World Champion Vladimir Kramnik had called current World Champion Magnus Carlsen a genius. How did the latter feel about that? Carlsen shot back a response that must have puzzled newcomers to top-level chess. What was it all about?
What happened to Magnus Carlsen’s rating?
In the November 2010 FIDE rating list Magnus Carlsen had lost his no. 1 status to a certain Viswanathan Anand, and was back in a pack of similarly rated players. You might say that Kramnik’s post-Bilbao interview with Sport Express (translated here ) was a little opportunistic. Kramnik was asked about Carlsen’s lost rating points:
What happened to Carlsen in the Bilbao Masters?
Later that year Carlsen lost three games (to Jobava, Adams and Sjugirov) in the Olympiad and then struggled in the Bilbao Masters, losing again to Kramnik in Round 1, then to Anand, and finishing in third place with Kramnik first.
How did Kramnik end up talking about his young opponent?
So how had Kramnik ended up talking about the genius or otherwise of his young opponent? Well, after finishing second in the TASHIR Petrosian Memorial in Moscow after a fine win over Alexander Morozevich, Kramnik joined most of the participants in travelling to Sochi for the 2-day 12-player Tal Memorial Blitz.