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| Mar-03-09 | | Petrosianic: <Kasparov retired at 42 at the top, but having just slipped below 2800.> No, Kasparov's final rating was 2812.
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| Mar-03-09 | | blacksburg: <His slow methodically risk adversion style seems to go against speed chess logic> actually, some rather "risk averse" players have apparently been pretty good at blitz. capablanca was considered to be the best in the world during his lifetime, while alekhine was not known for his blitz play. karpov was known as a very strong blitz player when he was young. pertosian was considered one of the best blitz players in the world. the boring kramnik took out the flashy topalov in their blitz playoff. ulf andersson is probably the most boring player that ever lived, and he plays bullet chess all the time (or at least he used to)(and he's pretty good at it). |
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| Mar-03-09 | | MaxxLange: When I saw Karpov at the US Amateur Teams in 1997, he came out to the lobby one night to kibitz a little bit when Roman was playing some IM, but he did not play any blitz himself that I saw. My friend did get to eat breakfast with him just by chance, though, and Karpov was very nice to him and asked questions about our chess club. It was a lot of fun watching him abuse 2200 -2400 players in that tournament, up on the top board. He sacrificed Bxh7+ against one guy, and I thought, man you know you've had it when Karpov plays that |
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| Mar-03-09 | | Brown: <Petrosianic> I remember seeing 2799. Could it be that he jumped after his result in Linares '05? Or maybe I'm confusing the number with the chessmetrics one. The truth remains that Kasparov was not the same force the further away from 40 he became. Thanks for the correction either way <Petrosianic> |
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| Mar-03-09 | | Brown: <docR> Player I would choose would be one of two players: Karpov or Bronstein. The former because he seemed to handle the pressure of the whole USSR chess world on his back very well. Everyone pinned their hopes on him to overcome Fischer, to be fashioned into some chess juggernaut... and he simply did it! I feel many would collapse under such pressure. In his career it seems he played for his entire country to a hire degree than most. To represent HUMANITY and stay stable, my choice would be Karpov. The latter, Bronstein, because he comes closest to representing the goodness that can come from chess. He is whimsical on one end, a killer tactician on the other, a great teacher in between. One can find many games of his that look like they were played by Petrosian, or Spassky, or Korchnoi or anyone. His imagination on the board knew no bounds, only to be matched by his decency and sportsmanship. When others were protecting themselves from looking bad playing computers, he dove right in, and when others started shunning Korchnoi, he found time to train with him. Really a great player and outstanding contributer to the chess world, more perhaps than anyone. |
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| Mar-03-09 | | acirce: It was never official, but his "live" rating was 2799 after the European Club Cup. He gained 5 points in the Russian Championship Superfinal to be 2804 on the January 2005 list. And in Linares he gained another 8 points. |
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| Mar-04-09 | | M.D. Wilson: Karpov's logical, smooth style, like that of Capablanca and Fischer, was highly suited to blitz chess. He usually always moved faster than his opponents in classical chess, which was quite unsettling for some; John Nunn has made mention of this ominous feeling. It's great to see him still playing. He's one of the great ambassadors of the game. His current level of play, whilst not as strong as in his glory years, is still competitive by any measure; certainly better than most people on this site! |
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| Mar-04-09 | | euripides: <Brown> Another one for your list: Capablanca ws doing very well in 1936 when I think he was aged 48; I rather think chessmetrics rates him as no.1 at some point around then. I have the feeling it's got much harder - before the second world war there was a pretty massive gap between the top ten and the rest, whereas nowadays there's much more of a continuum, so a slight slippage in playing strength can mean a much bigger fall in the rankings. And the progress of knowledge is so fast that no-one can stay at the top without quite a bit of work. |
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| Mar-04-09 | | Brown: <euripides> How could I forget Capablanca? Embarassing... I agree with your entire post. To stay on or near the top nowadays, one needs to not only stay on top of their game, but to also keep taking in new ideas in positions, and have the fire to compete. This is one of the reasons why Lasker, Karpov and Kasparov stand out as champions, as they kept on improving after reaching the top... |
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| Mar-04-09 | | AnalyzeThis: chessmetrics says that Reshevsky was the #1 player in the world in Oct. 1953, at age 41 years 11 months. |
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| Mar-04-09 | | Petrosianic: And he never even knew! |
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| Mar-05-09 | | Brown: <Analyze This> Thanks for that! And he fell out of the top ranks precipitously after that. @ 40 seems to be a bit of magic area... |
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| Mar-11-09 | | Augalv: Chess legend Anatoli Karpov is in my top five list of best chess players of all time. |
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| Mar-18-09 | | TheWizardfromHarlem: Hey Brown--u think u could post that article about the healthy eating habits of chess players or just the main points..thx anything would be greatly appreciated |
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| Mar-26-09 | | Jim Bartle: While goofing around I stumbled upon this statement at chessville from 2004: "(9/21) Battle of Two World Champions: September 18-19, in tiny Lindsborg, Kansas, 7-time World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov and 4-time Women’s World Champion Susan Polgar squared off in a six-game triple challenge of Rapid Chess, Blitz Chess and Fischer Random Chess." How is Karpov a seven-time world champion and Polgar a four-time champion? http://www.chessville.com/Headlines... |
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| Mar-26-09 | | Karpova: <Jim Bartle: How is Karpov a seven-time world champion> They may have counted 1975, 1978, 1981, 1984/85, 1993, 1996 and 1998 with Karpov "becoming" WC every time. |
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| Mar-26-09 | | Jim Bartle: You're probably right, Karpova. Highly creative, counting it as it were golf or tennis tournaments. I would call him a 2-time WC, winning it (or having it bestowed upon him) in 1975, and then defeating Timman in 1993 after Kasparov left for the PCA. The rest are title defenses. |
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| Mar-26-09 | | slomarko: <then defeating Timman in 1993 after Kasparov left for the PCA.> that match was a complete joke. |
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| Mar-26-09 | | Absentee: <slomarko: <then defeating Timman in 1993 after Kasparov left for the PCA.> that match was a complete joke.> The whole mess of FIDE titles during the interreign was a joke. I mean, Kasimdzhanov? Khalifman? Who could consider them real world champions? |
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| Apr-01-09 | | KingG: Apparently Karpov will be playing in a strong round-robin event later this year: <San Sebastián, Spain, in Basque country not far from where the Grand Slam final will take place in Bilbao later in the year, will host a chess festival with a very strong GM event this July. The dates are July 6-16 and the main event's field was just finalized today: Sergei Movsesian (2747 - SVK), Peter Svidler (2726 - RUS), Ruslan Ponomariov (2726 UKR), Hikaru Nakamura (USA - 2701), Rustam Kasimjanov (2695 - UZB), Francisco Vallejo (2688 - ESP), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (2684 - FRA), Anatoly Karpov (2644 - RUS), Julio Granda (2610 - PER), Pablo San Segundo (2560 - ESP). (Average: 2687; category 18.)> http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt... I hope he prepares seriously and plays some good chess. It would probably help if he could get himself into some kind of decent physical shape, but I can't really see that happening. |
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| Apr-01-09 | | returnoftheking: I wouldn't call the match against Timman a joke. In comparisation to the other Wch Match; short -kasparov i found this one more interesting. Apart from losing to Short, who abandoned Fide, Karpov played like a world champion in 93 and 94, not worse then Kasparov and certainly better then all other GM's. I'll be looking forward to the tournament in Spain, although i agree that Karpov has no chance to win with the likes of Svidler and Ponomariov. |
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| Apr-02-09 | | M.D. Wilson: Stranger things have happened. |
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| Apr-02-09 | | acirce: He's not the favourite, but I think 'no chance' is a huge exaggeration. In any event, I'll certainly be rooting for him. |
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| Apr-02-09 | | slomarko: <alexmagnus: <that match was a complete joke.> Wasn't Kasparov-Short? In terms of Elo differences, both were mismatches (Kasparov-Short 150 points, Karpov-Timman 140).> you know very well what i meant so stop trolling. |
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