I did the queries
, here are the candidates:
2816 Veselin Topalov
2814 Hikaru Nakamura
2808 Fabiano Caruana
2793 Anish Giri
2784 Dmitry Jakovenko
2782 Liren Ding
2777 Vladimir Kramnik
2773 Wesley So
2771 Alexander Grischuk
2765 Levon Aronian
2762 Sergey Karjakin
2758 Evgeny Tomashevsky
2744 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave
2742 Michael Adams
2741 Radoslaw Wojtaszek
2738 Teimour Radjabov
2737 Pendyala Harikrishna
2736 Shakhrivar Mamedyarov*
2734 Yi Wei
2732 Leinier Dominguez Perez
2728 David Navara
2727 Peter Svidler
2726 Vassily Ivanchuk
2725 Nikita Vitiugov
2721 Yangyi Yu
2720 Dmitry Andreikin
2717 Pavel Eljanov
2712 Hao Wang
2707 Peter Leko
2705 Ian Nepomniachtchi
2700 Anton Korobov* Maimdiarove's name is butchered horribly all the time and the correct spelling is unknown
A good candidat for OP is Giri Anish.
Young (21yo) from Netherlands where Bitcoin is quite popular there. He played many times Magnus Carlsen when junior, >2700, is very deep now in the Baku Tournament... and lived in Japan during 2002-2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_GiriI'd like to thank whoever it is because this thread is highly valuable (OP is world top best player !!), due to this thread for a week now I'm learning from zero Chess and it's a real blow, I like it very much spending a lot of time to learn openings and play. I was also digging a lot of information about the best players, their games, the history of Chess and when doing this I fell on this player and thought... well it could really be him !
BTW, the best free and ad-free chess website I've found is
http://www.lichess.org have a look (they also have an app).
Nice find!
I did not know any of the current top players had a positive record against Carlsen
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=107252&pid2=52948LIFETIME RECORD:
Classical games:
Anish Giri beat Magnus Carlsen 1 to 0, with 9 draws
Even Kasparov was LUCKY to have a positive record again Carlsen based on 2 rapid games in 2004 when Carlsen was 13 years old! Carlsen was easily winning the game they drew
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=52948&pid2=15940Eljanov has not played Carlsen nearly as much
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=49456&pid2=52948LIFETIME RECORD:
Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Pavel Eljanov 2 to 0.
Nakamura played Carlsen a lot with a horrible record (based on his rating)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=10084&pid2=52948LIFETIME RECORD:
Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura 11 to 0, with 18 draws.
Anand may have played Carlsen the most (because of WC match)
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=52948&pid2=12088LIFETIME RECORD:
Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Viswanathan Anand 10 to 8, with 37 draws.
