Magnus Carlsen's decade of dominance. Carlsen won a total of 10 top-level tournaments, the most ever by a single player in a single season. Russian chess great Garry Kasparov's record of Magnus Carlsen ended his vintage year of 2019 as he began it, as a superb all-round player who outclasses his rivals. Carlsen won at Wijk in January last year and at Moscow in December where he R Praggnanandhaa faces Magnus Carlsen in the final of the Chess World Cup 2023. He claimed the top rank in the FIDE world chess rankings back in 2011 and only Garry Kasparov has spent more Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian world champion, can contest the title of greatest of all time with the legendary Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov in the wake of his Grenke win. Running 1000 simulations on the classical match, Carlsen wins 68.9%, Nepomniachtchi 16.5%, and there is a 14.6% chance of a tiebreaker. In the previous world championship match, Carlsen and Caruana had very similar classical ratings, so it'll be interesting to see if Carlsen tries harder to win this match in the classical segment. If we take all of them at their prime and put them against one another in a classical best of 100 over months and months with the loser being executed.. in such circumstances I think Magnus wins the most games against Fischer and Kasparov. I think Fischer and Kasparov games would be much closer to equal in % with just a handful of games making Caruana is the world number-two for the first time since 2021. His peak rating was 2844 (in 2014), the third-highest achieved ever (behind only Carlsen and GM Garry Kasparov). Gukesh-Carlsen. This cross-generational pairing had a little bit of recent history; Gukesh with Black defeated Carlsen in the blitz event on Monday. GM Magnus Carlsen won four games in the match and drew seven for a final match score of 7.5-3.5. GM Ian Nepomniachtchi played very strong chess in the first five games, which were all drawn. The sixth game of the match was the turning point—Carlsen won a historic 136-move game (the longest game in world championship history). gtRvoN.