Magnus Carlsen ranks Hou Yifan

Reigning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen rates 4-time Women's World Champion Hou Yifan on Genius, Entertainment, Influence and Sanity!

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[daborshy]

To any normal person, she's 10 on genius. But if you ask the greatest player of all time to rate someone 200 points lower than himself, his response will naturally sound a little harsh.

[pukulu]

Hou Yifan had a very colorless personality when she first hit the international chess scene when she was around 13 years old. Now her personality is warm, courteous and congenial. I agree that if you're going to give anyone a "10" on the sanity scale, she would be one of those to receive it.

[sirinee]

She became a wgm in 2007, and a GM in 2008. Only a year gap between getting the titles. Impressive!!

[peterreid]

Hou Yifan is one of my favourite players. She drew with Magnus once.

[LeventK]

This guy is a machine. About both playing chess and finding entertaining content.

[studdpuppy]

A 6 may sound harsh but sounds very honest, especially when comparing her with the best chess players in the world and all time.

[MrGG-rzhe]

The ability to spread these out is almost as impressive as the players he's rating haha.

[sauravkumar]

I'm starting to enjoy this
Make it a series

[palestrinabrahmsfan]

lol after hearing his scores on Fischer it feels like he was really kind to Hou Yifan

[GMPranav]

He gave 7 for Fischer's genius. Considering that 6 is generous here lol.

[EOh-ewqf]

just watch other videos of this. he rarely gave out 9 or 10. getting a positive genius score by Magnus already means you are a genious

[VikasGupta-nruy]

Any normal person will give those world champion GMs 0 in terms of sahity most of their moves are insane

[ДаниилМедведев-чл]

He gave 10 out of 10 for sanity to both women in the list. Smart. So fucking smart.

[ABCurry]

I think Magnus here is rating her respectably as a GM which is nice and why it was harsh. If however, he's rating her compared to previous Women's World Champions, these rankings of course would be higher up

[mostafazohari]

Genius: 7 entertaining: 7 influence: 5 Sanity: 10

[Boo]

i don’t really get why sanity is one of the factors judged. it’s pretty pointless

[igorbednarski]

Hou Yifan reached the top 100 even though she isn't even a full time player, she became a professor at 26, I mean that's just crazy. If she committed 100% to chess I bet she would be strong enough at least for the top 10 if not for the WC title.

[Idn]

I think any prodigy who has a succesfull career in chess is already a genius

[elimlinrr]

And what is Magnus IQ test score vs Hou Yifan ?

[amorphati]

The sanity scale lmao. Imagine this in any other sport