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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by DFHippie on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @05:34PM (#18556314)
I think they only pointed out that he improves relative to his opponent.
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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by michalu on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @05:39PM (#18556356)
Grischuk pointed out that according to universal rating system that measures the gap for each category like rapid or blitz and apparently Carlsen is the only one who sometimes gets a negative number on blitz/rapid. Which is most interesting.•

But I agree even so relative to Caruana, whose gaps are much higher. He must have been aware of this.

•http://universalrating.com/ratings.php

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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by kristofferc on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @05:43PM (#18556382)
He made a >joke< that maybe Carlsen should have a negative gap.
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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by michalu on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @05:51PM (#18556447)
oh, it's hard to tell when Grischuk is joking. It's true, he never had a negative rating: http://universalrating.com/player.php?PlayerID=16626
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