Re:Magnus Carlsen to give up World Championship title
by jollygoodshow on Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:32AM
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I think your argument here actually favours Fischer's dominance. ELO metrics don't matter as were talking about the best players of the respective eras
granted it becomes more clear that fischer dominated in the quarterfinals forward, but it still is worht pointing out that his opponents weren't nearly as strong as nepo's opponents, relatively speaking
I imagine nepo's score would've been MUCH stronger if he was playing 100-200 ELO points weaker opponents all candidates. Instead nepo had 3 opponents with higher ELO and his weakest opponents ELO was only 19 points lower than his own...
in summary, I think you're correct and I was wrong, but I'm not so sure it's quite so clear-cut when you factor in other variables