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How come Bobby Fischer or Kasparov or Karpov are not on the list?

Here is what happened:

I was in the library looking at the Chess Notice Board. Posted were "Greatest Lists" of Chess. Greatest Tacticians, Greatest Strategists, etc. This guy walks over, chess "bag" on the shoulder. He joins me looking at "The Greatest 19th Century Chess Players". Very quickly, he noticed that there was no Fischer, no Kasparov, and no Karpov! He exploded: "Why isn't Bobby Fischer on the list? No Kasparov or Karpov? Why aren't they on the list?!!!"

He then mumbled something, calling the author "ignorant", "X&%#", etc.

Then he asked me a question: "DON'T YOU THINK THEY SHOULD BE ON THE LIST?"

Comments

  • 6 years ago

    Darren96

    really?
  • 6 years ago

    andy

    I belong on that list just as much as Kasparov does.
  • 6 years ago

    erik

    hahahahahaha
  • 6 years ago

    vernon

    yes nyarlathotep is right and if they werent on a twentieth century list it would be an outrage
  • 6 years ago

    nyarlathotep

    Yeah, 19th century is the 1800's Laughing

     

    If it were a list of the 20th century greats, then yes, it'd be a bit odd.

     

  • 6 years ago

    soccerdude

    Yeah i go with batgirl's idea

     

  • 6 years ago

    batgirl

    And they probably would have if they'd been born 100 years earlier.
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