| May-05-16 | | RookFile: This looks like understandably nervous play from Carlsen. I'm not sure what black is supposed to do, maybe 13....Qa5 and later ...Rfc8? |
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| Mar-24-17 | | brainhack: what the f happen? |
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| Jul-16-18 | | PJs Studio: A nice game between the best player of all time, Kasparov (near the height of his powers) and the future best player (possibly best player ever) in Magnus Carlsen. We are lucky to have even a couple of games between these two supermen that bridge their separate generations. |
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| Nov-21-18 | | Albanius: 17..Rxa2 is still a game, W slightly better. |
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Dec-08-18
 | | PawnSac: Gotta remember Magnus Carlsen was only 13 years old at the time of this game. Two months prior (January 04) his rating was 2484 and the month after (April) it was 2552. He was still on the climb, whereas Garry was one year from retiring, but 4 years earlier put up the highest rating ever (2856.7 March 2000). His Apr 2004 rating was 2817. It's perfectly understandable Carlsen might have been nervous. I certainly would have been! lol. What we don't know is the clock standings. I would guess Garry was significantly ahead on time and knew well how to push hard with the advantage. |
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Dec-08-18
 | | gezafan: If Kasparov is the best player of all time then why did he lose a match to Kramnik without winning a single game? |
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| Dec-08-18 | | john barleycorn: < gezafan: If Kasparov is the best player of all time then why did he lose a match to Kramnik without winning a single game?> Well, looks like a car accident hahaha |
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| Mar-05-21 | | Gaito: Black played reasonably well for a 13-year-old boy. He only made two mistakes, though. First mistake: 17...Qb8? (17...Rxa2 was in order). Second mistake (this was really a blunder caused perhaps by nervousness): 20...Ng4?? (correct was 20...Ra4, though White would still have the upper hand).
After 21.b7!? it was game over (the engine prefers 21.e5!). |
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| Mar-05-21 | | Gaito: Who has been the strongest chess player at the age of thirteen?: A) Fischer, B) Morphy, C) Carlsen, D) Kasparov, E) Capablanca, F) Judit Polgar, G) Sammy Reshevsky.
This is a very tough question, but my personal opinion is that Fischer has been the strongest 13-year-old player so far. Maybe Judit would come second, and Carlsen third. |
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Mar-05-21
 | | keypusher: <Gaito: Who has been the strongest chess player at the age of thirteen?: A) Fischer, B) Morphy, C) Carlsen, D) Kasparov, E) Capablanca, F) Judit Polgar, G) Sammy Reshevsky. This is a very tough question, but my personal opinion is that Fischer has been the strongest 13-year-old player so far. Maybe Judit would come second, and Carlsen third.> You are wrong. Fischer made his big leap at age 14. There's no basis for rating him above Polgar or Carlsen, or for that matter Peter Leko, Sergey Karjakin, and quite a few others at age 13. Also, there have been some very strong 13-year-olds since Carlsen's time, but none of them are on your list. What about Alireza Firouzja, for example? Fischer turned 13 in March 1956. His main accomplishment at that age was winning the "Game of the Century" against Donald Byrne, which isn't nothing, but he finished 8th-9th in that tournament. He finished 4th-8th in the U.S. Open, 8th-12th in the Canadian Open, failed to qualify for the Manhattan Chess Club championship, and finished 7th in the Western Open. Here's the chessmetrics age 13 list (2005). Fischer doesn't show up. http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/CM2/... |
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Mar-05-21
 | | MissScarlett: My guess is Reshevsky because he was the only one able to hold a bar mitzvah. |
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| Mar-06-21 | | RookFile: If I'm not mistaken, Stockfish turns 13 this year. |
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Mar-06-21
| | keypusher: <RookFile: If I'm not mistaken, Stockfish turns 13 this year.> Well, all I can say is there is a new 13-year-old sheriff in town. Though I guess it's not going to improve as fast as Bobby did. |
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| Apr-12-22 | | Dimitrije Mandic: <gezafan: If Kasparov is the best player of all time then why did he lose a match to Kramnik without winning a single game?> Because that's the tradition if you hold the World Chess Champion title for some 15+ years, it seems. Just look at Emmanuel Lasker! :D But seriously, that does not diminish Garry's legacy in the slightest. I'd argue that what makes Kasparov the true GOAT so far, aside from longevity in the post-Botvinnik era, is the fact that he had the best rival of all time (who I'd argue is also in the top 5 chess players of all time). Karpov crushed everyone for 10 years straight, then Kasparov came and crushed everyone AND Karpov for 15 years straight... and to say that they were both *very* strong even after losing their respective (unified) WCC titles would be a *massive* understatement. |
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Apr-12-22
 | | perfidious: <gazafan the gormless> should really stick to Far Right political theorising rather than displaying his utter lack of objectivity on chess matters. |
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| Jan-17-23 | | Messiah: Embarrassing. |
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