A safe prediction

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    Re: A safe prediction

    A safe prediction

    September 10, 2017

    A writer on chess.com found that the last time there was only one person above 2800 on the ratings list was in October of 2013:

    1. Carlsen 2870
    2. Kramnik 2796
    3. Aronian 2795
    4. Grischuk 2786
    5. Nakamura 2783
    6. Caruana 2779
    7. Anand 2775
    8. Topalov 2771
    9. Gelfand 2765
    10. Karjakin 2762

    2700chess has a list of the top 20 players for every rating period from 1967 to present

    As a curiosity, the list for June 1967 is:

    1. Spassky 2670
    2. Fischer 2670
    3. Petrosian 2660
    4. Botvinnik 2650
    5. Tal 2650
    6. Stein 2640
    7. Geller 2630
    8. Larsen 2620
    9. Portisch 2620
    10. Korchnoi 2620
    11. Polugaevsky 2620
    12. Keres 2610
    13. Smyslov 2610
    14. Taimanov 2600
    15. Uhlmann 2590

    I rather think there has been some inflation in ratings since then!

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