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Re:Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize by dntbnmpls on Sunday April 19, 2020 @08:10AM (#22915337)
> Chess is one of the few fields where dominance can easily stretch into several decades

Easily? No. The only player to have the top rating longer than 10 years is kasparov.

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

> if you're a young prodigy you may breach into top level in your teenage years and last well until your 50s or 60s. Of course you won't be #1 this whole time (check out Lasker's longevity though) but you will always remain a top contender.

No. There is nobody 50 or older in the fide ranking ( top 100 ).

https://ratings.fide.com/

Chess is a mentally and physically draining sport. Top players tend to drop off considerably in their late 30s and 40s as younger talent takes over.

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Re:Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize by thom on Sunday April 19, 2020 @08:46AM (#22915542)
Anand, Gelfand, Dreev and Ivanchuck are all 50 or older, unless you just mean blitz, in which case it's just Anand and Dreev.
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Re:Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize by DiogenesKynikos on Sunday April 19, 2020 @02:07PM (#22917595)
Anand is about 100 Elo points weaker than Carlsen at all time controls. It's impressive that Anand is still #15 at his age (50 years), but he's the only 50-year-old at that elite level (2700+ Elo).

The age distribution of the top 100 Classical players is:

    16-19: 5
    20-29: 39
    30-39: 40
    40-49: 12
    50-51: 4
The 20s and 30s are really the peak ages for chess.
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Re:Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize by thom on Sunday April 19, 2020 @05:20PM (#22918892)
Wasn't disputing that, just the inaccuracy of the previous comment.
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Re:Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize by brmgb on Sunday April 19, 2020 @07:47PM (#22919775)
> Easily? No. The only player to have the top rating longer than 10 years is kasparov.

That's because you are looking at a FIDE list which starts in 1971. Mikhail Botvinnik was the world champion from a nearly uninterrupted period from 1948 to 1963 (he lost to Tal once).

Capablanca was undefeated from 10 February 1916 to 21 March 1924 and remained a contender for best player in the world until his retirement in 1931.

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Re:Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize by V-2 on Sunday April 19, 2020 @09:53AM (#22915908)
Korchnoi was still in the top 100 at the age of 76.

Of course "easily" is a vast exaggeration.

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Re:Iranian teen shocks Magnus Carlsen to win $14k prize by microtherion on Sunday April 19, 2020 @12:00PM (#22916705)
And Samuel Reshevsky was an elite player from age 11 into his 70s.
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