Apr-02-12 Vasily Smyslov 
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Dr. Yes: I was trying to post a very high compliment to Smyslov and got many interesting opinions and comments. I don't believe much in chessmetrics and someone mentioned how they delist inactive players. Generally, a top five or ten player might have a chance in a WCC match, but outside of ...
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| | Apr-02-12 Alexander Alekhine
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Dr. Yes: Thanks Thanh Phan. Keres had plenty of time to play a match with Alekhine. During WWII, the two often played in the tournaments of Nazi occupied Europe. More likely, Alekhine wouldn't have played a WWC match with Keres because Keres had nothing to bargain with, no money, and no ...
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| | Mar-31-12 Anatoly Karpov
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Dr. Yes: Met Karpov once. Nice fellow, don't you think?
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| | Mar-31-12 Mikhail Tal
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Dr. Yes: Perhaps someday intuition and method chess will make a comeback, but for now even Kasparov prefers number crunching with Houdini or other computer programs. The comeback might take place when we add a few more pieces to the game at each player's option of choice, so that computers ...
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| | Mar-29-12 Max Euwe
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Dr. Yes: @ughaibu. The professional tosser is only so called when he forgets to buy the next round the next time.
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| | Mar-29-12 Robert James Fischer
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Dr. Yes: Lighten up HarryLime. I think Richard Taylor was being as objective as he could be in stating his opinion. You should realize that Fischer unfortunately was a very modern professional player who relied on preparation just as much as Alekhine did. I noticed that generally, Karpov ...
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| | Mar-25-12 Wilhelm Steinitz
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Dr. Yes: Going back to the original topic of the beginning of Steinitz's reign. Both AVRO38 and AlexMagnus have chosen to say that it didn't begin in 1866. They cite as evidence, a narrow cherry-picked definition of the word 'champion' and proffer an explanation of what they claim is ...
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| | Mar-18-12 Samuel Reshevsky
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Dr. Yes: Re: murder of Alexander Alekhine's brother, some posters who deny his being murdered must not be reading their own Wiki-Pedia Bible.
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| | Mar-18-12 Jose Raul Capablanca
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Dr. Yes: King Death might be starting to agree with me (Heaven forbid). Yes, Capablanca was one of the few geniuses of the game, a real natural. I maintain the others were Morphy, Reshevsky and possibly Deschapelle. I think Fischer would agree with me. Fischer's need for clarity stemmed from
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| | Mar-17-12 Viswanathan Anand
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Dr. Yes: Perhaps chess players need a dose of reality. Back in the 1970s, I found that few Russians or Ukrainians knew how to play chess, let alone play well. In China, today, despite their success on the world stage with Women's Champions, few people know how to play. Many do know how to ...
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| | Mar-17-12 Boris Spassky
Mar-17-12 Emanuel Lasker
Mar-15-12 Garry Kasparov
Mar-15-12 David Bronstein
Mar-14-12 Vladimir Kramnik
Mar-01-12 Paul Morphy
Feb-19-12 Kibitzer's Café
Dec-02-11 Kenneth Rogoff
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