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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Fidea Elo Chest Rating - 2900

One of your goals is to reach the Fidea Elo chest rating of 2900. Is it possible for a human being to get there? Maybe you play with a factor of 10, which means that if I were to play against an opponent who's rated the same as me, I would be expected to score 50%. If your opponent is 200 points, lower rated, you're expected to score 75% and so on. My rating is obviously carried through thousands of games. Right now, my rating is 2861, which is decent. In order to reach 2900, I would have to either get better at chest, which I think is fairly hard to do at least considerably better

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