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Originally Posted by YouKnowWho
This hypothetical world is very quickly becoming reality, since he is now already at 2656 on the live rating list (https://2700chess.com/?per-page=100)! Let's hope he does not burn out in Aeroflot and manages to maintain it (if he even increases it I will be mind blown).
I don't see how almost a full month of more than a game per day can be the right way to prepare for an event as tough as Aeroflot, but yeah he's gotten to over 2650 and cracked the top 100. So he just has to maintain at this point, to get that rating published. And it helps (at the margins) that the published rating he's working off of is 2618 not his current live rating. So that probably knocks half a point off of the score he would need to "maintain".
Or who knows, maybe all this really has just been his warm up and he'll actually increase his rating further at Aeroflot. My mind would also be blown if he pulled that off, but... anything's possible? Officially he's seeded 26th but if you give him credit for his live rating he'd be 14th in the starting table instead. Maybe he'll just win the whole ****ing thing.