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| Apr-26-15 | | Everett: Petrosianic: <The best aged tournament performance has got to be a 55 year old Lasker winning by a substantial margin over a field containing Capablanca and Alekhine at New York 1924>
<Possibly, although two other candidates leap to mind: 1) Smyslov making it to the Candidates Final at age 63. 2) Lasker going undefeated at Moscow 1935, at age 66.> Says <tournament> performance, quite clearly. Not match. |
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Apr-26-15
 | | offramp: My favourite tournament performance is Kasparov's at Linares (1999). |
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| Apr-27-15 | | A.T PhoneHome: Kasparov was, by his own admission, at his peak in 1999. 10.5/14 is a very strong feat against the field he was facing! |
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Apr-27-15
| | offramp: Am I alone in thinking that Kasparov is a better politician than he is a chess player? |
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| Apr-27-15 | | A.T PhoneHome: I don't affiliate myself with politics so can't really say. Anyways, what makes you conclude such (not saying you're dead-wrong, just interested)? I guess his attitude as a player is one thing. |
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| May-20-15 | | Everett: <Apr-27-15
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member offramp: Am I alone in thinking that Kasparov is a better politician than he is a chess player?>You are indeed alone! ;-) |
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| May-20-15 | | RookFile: Lasker going 16 out of 20 at New York 1924. Forget about it, nothing else by a senior equals that in tournament play. |
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Sep-01-15
| | offramp: Whenever I hear the name AVRO I think of the English AVRO, the aeroplane company, and not the Dutch AVRO. It's a pity that AVRO the English company didn't sponsor Margate (1938). That would have been excellent!! |
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Sep-01-15
 | | whiteshark: <AVRO> - your game.
<AVRO> - You see this name, you think dirty.
There's a bit of <AVRO> in all of us. tbc... |
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Sep-01-15
 | | AylerKupp: <<offramp> Am I alone in thinking that Kasparov is a better politician than he is a chess player?> You probably aren't. But you and others who share the same opinion should consider that if Kasparov was a better politician than he is a chess player he would be the President of Russia. |
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Sep-01-15
 | | keypusher: <AylerKupp: <<offramp> Am I alone in thinking that Kasparov is a better politician than he is a chess player?>
You probably aren't. >
Don't encourage him!
<offramp> Hell yes. |
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| Sep-18-15 | | The Kings Domain: Considering the results a changing of the guard really, a passing of the torch. |
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| Feb-27-16 | | rgr459: If I could go back in time to see any tournament in history, it would be this one. |
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Feb-28-16
 | | MissScarlett: Hastings 1895 for me. August on the English coast. |
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| Feb-28-16 | | rgr459: 4 world champions - just think how much chess history was in that tournament. From Capablanca to Keres, players in this tournament were at the top of world chess from the 1900's-70's. |
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Mar-29-16
| | offramp: Het Aamsteldamiske Vereenigingen Rijksmuseeum Oranjeboom. That's AVRO. |
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Mar-29-16
 | | perfidious: You don't mess around with The Big Oranje, lemme tell ya. |
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Mar-29-16
 | | diceman: <offramp: Am I alone in thinking that Kasparov is a better politician than he is a chess player?> What would make you think that?
He's been the World Champion as one, and unemployed as the other. <unemployed>
Maybe that is a "better" politician! :) |
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| Apr-04-16 | | ughaibu: 50% world champions here, as at St. Petersburg (1895/96). 60% in the final at St Petersburg (1914), but, how about the 50th World Champions Jubilee Tournament (2003)? |
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Apr-04-16
 | | Phony Benoni: 60% also at FIDE World Championship Tournament (1948). There must be some over-the-board tournaments, especially in more recent times with more active world champions around, that can beat 60%. |
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Apr-04-16
| | Phony Benoni: Case in point: Las Palmas (1996) with either 67% or 83%, depending on if y ou count Topalov. |
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Apr-04-16
 | | Benzol: Pity there isn't a page for the 1966 Soviet Team Championship. IIRC Botvinnik, Petrosian, Smyslov, Tal and Spassky all played in that one. |
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| Apr-04-16 | | ughaibu: Phony Benoni: Yes, I can't imagine how I forgot about the 1948 championship tournament, and 67% is pretty good without any jokes about Topalov. Benzol, I guess I take your meaning but wouldn't that require us to ignore all but the first board players? |
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| Jun-25-16 | | backrank: >> AylerKupp: <<offramp> Am I alone in thinking that Kasparov is a better politician than he is a chess player?>
You probably aren't. But you and others who share the same opinion should consider that if Kasparov was a better politician than he is a chess player he would be the President of Russia.<< No, he would be President of the Universe. |
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| Jun-25-16 | | Absentee: <AylerKupp: <<offramp> Am I alone in thinking that Kasparov is a better politician than he is a chess player?> You probably aren't. But you and others who share the same opinion should consider that if Kasparov was a better politician than he is a chess player he would be the President of Russia.> No, let's put it this other way: if he were equally good at both, he'd be drooling over the chessboard trying to understand how the horsie thing moves. |
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