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Mind-boggling
A year before transferring back to the United States, Fabiano Caruana achieved what has been the strongest performance in his career and one of the most incredible feats in the history of competitive chess. At 22, he obtained a stratospheric 3103 Tournament Rating Performance by scoring 8½/10 points in the second edition of the Sinquefield Cup. Moreover, he did it by winning his first seven games consecutively.
The achievement reached mainstream media, with Seth Stevenson writing for Slate:
To you and me, going unbeaten and undrawn in five straight tournament games sounds impressive. But to chess aficionados, Caruana’s performance is nigh on miraculous. Caruana wasn’t merely avoiding draws and losses. In the words of one commentator, he was “spanking” his opponents.