| Mar-10-04 | | Resignation Trap: 27...Rb8?? was dreadful. Black had to play 27...Bxc3. |
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| Aug-25-11 | | PSC: The opening moves were actually 1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 c6, but ne'ermind. I've posted Karpov's annotations to this game here: http://patzerseescheck.blogspot.com... |
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Aug-25-11
 | | andrewjsacks: This game shows, I think, that a Fischer-Karpov match in '75 would probably have been closer by far than the '72 match with Spassky. Karpov was not only quite strong, but possessed of a style and temperament extremely difficult to combat. Fischer the favorite? I agree. But no rout in sight. |
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| Aug-26-11 | | tonsillolith: <This game shows, I think, that a Fischer-Karpov match in '75 would probably have been closer by far than the '72 match with Spassky. Karpov was not only quite strong, but possessed of a style and temperament extremely difficult to combat. Fischer the favorite? I agree. But no rout in sight.> Very cogent statement. I believe both the people who think Fischer would have stomped Karpov or that Karpov was favored whatsoever are all delusional. Fischer certainly seemed to be stronger at the time, but Karpov not far behind. However, later on, in the 80s, perhaps Karpov would have been the favorite. It's much harder to say. |
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Aug-26-11
 | | perfidious: Karpov had already proven himself a top-class GM, but no-one was in the class of Fischer in 1972. In 1975, after three years without a serious game, and Karpov going from strength to strength? In my opinion, Fischer would have won, but so easily as some fanboys would have one believe, though he had previously demonstrated himself capable of coming out of layoffs with stronger play than before. |
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