Quote from: StarenseN on September 25, 2015, 10:17:37 PM

Quote from: Taras on September 20, 2015, 12:14:20 AM

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 Cheesy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anish_Giri

I'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=52948
LIFETIME 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=15940

Eljanov has not played Carlsen nearly as much
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=49456&pid2=52948
LIFETIME 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=52948
LIFETIME 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=12088
LIFETIME RECORD:
Classical games: Magnus Carlsen beat Viswanathan Anand 10 to 8, with 37 draws.