Pavel Eljanov's 2954 TPR in World Cup!!

Even though he lost in rapid games to Karjakin in the semis, his scored 7 wins and 5 draws in classical chess (no losses!), which may be the 4th highest classical chess TPR (tournament performance rating) ever!
His classical game results:
1 Jumabayev 1
2 Jumabayev 1
3 Ipatov 1
4 Ipatov 1
5 Grischuk 1
6 Grischuk 1
7 Jakovenko ½
8 Jakovenko ½
9 Nakamura 1
10 Nakamura ½
11 Karjakin ½
12 Karjakin ½
I put these numbers into Elo calculator and got TPR of 2954.

According to wikipedia the 3 best TPRs are:
3102, Fabiano Caruana, Sinquefield Cup 2014
3001, Magnus Carlsen, Pearl Spring 2009
2999, Gabriel Sargissian, Zafra 2007
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_records_in_chess#Highest_performance_rating_in_a_tournament)

Another article in chess.com, written in 2012, lists the highest as:
Bobby Fisher 6-0 with 3080 TPR
Gata Kamsky over Etienne Bacrot 3 1/2 out of 4 3047 TPR
and Judit Polgar over 2900 TPR 8.5/9 games
But my guess is that Fischer doesnt qualify as perfect results cant be calculated into TPR.

There have been some other mentioning about some other tournaments such as Karpov in Linares 94 or Kasparovs many tournaments or even Kramnik in Riga over 3000 TPR and Wesley So's 3183 but those havent been all classical tournaments.

In summary, I believe that Eljanov's run is probably atleast in top 10 best results ever.

great work Parool...

what Elo calculator did you use?

Eljanov's TPR of 2954, didn't qualify him for candidates; by comparison Anand's TPR of ~ 2850 won last candidates.. which suggests that qualifying for the candidates may be harder than the candidates itself.. I also believe that qualifying for the World championship during the candidates, is harder than the WCh itself. That is the reason I think the World Champion (and runner up) should undergo the selection process again. I support Magnus Carlsen's stand on this issue..

Thanks for reply, cafestream!

I used Alexandra Kosteniuk's Elo calculator, which can be found here: http://www.kosteniuk.com/EloCalc/elo.php

Given that there are so many ways to qualify to Candidates, I find no major flaws with current system. Given that most of top players play eachother often in swiss/round robin tournaments, changing the current selection process would greatly diminsh the statue of being World Champion.

thanks Parool