This site has quite a go at comparing chess players from different times:
http://db.chessmetrics.com/CM2/Introduction.asp?Params=
Hours of fun, for the interested geek. 
How good Alekhine would be, if he live now?
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If he were alive, Alekhin would suck at chess. I mean come on, the guy would be 118, way past his prime obviously. It'd be already great if he'd remember the rules of the game.
Somewhere between a class C player and the best ever
I doesnt mean it like how good he would be at 118. :) But if he used some of time mashine or was frized and now unfrized in biological age of 30. Simply how good he was in his best age compere todays players.
And what the rest of these masters are their mithological powers and briliance play any value compere nowdays masters?
he wouldnt be as good as capa would be if capa was still alive
Another time machine thread...
everyone likes time-machines :)
ivandh wrote:
Somewhere between a class C player and the best ever
That sounds just about right.
Only around the level of a 2200 player due to the advances in techniques, tactics, openings, endgames, strategies, etc. However, if he were to be compensated for the era in which he played, he would be the World Champion for a couple of years now and then lose the title to Magnus Carlsen.
Chessgod123 wrote:
Only around the level of a 2200 player due to the advances in techniques, tactics, openings, endgames, strategies, etc.
Ehem and I don't know. That every modern Fide master and above is better than Alekhine was ? I would think that he would be GM level.
Atos wrote:
Chessgod123 wrote:
Only around the level of a 2200 player due to the advances in techniques, tactics, openings, endgames, strategies, etc.
Ehem and I don't know. That every modern Fide master and above is better than Alekhine was ? I would think that he would be GM level.
GM ... I don't think so. Alekhine may have been more talented, but everyone from 2000+ has all the understanding, knowledge of theory, opening, etc.
But maybe he'd be more like 2400-2500.
He'd be good, and drunk, if he lived at my house
trysts wrote:
He'd be good, and drunk, if he lived at my house
trysts i may not be good at chess but I can be drunk for sure.
Atos wrote:
trysts wrote:
He'd be good, and drunk, if he lived at my house
trysts i may not be good at chess but I can be drunk for sure.
I don't know exactly how good Alekhine would be at chess if he were alive today, but without booze, I'm sure he'd be just as dead today as yesterday.
trysts wrote:
He'd be good, and drunk, if he lived at my house
Alekhine was often good and drunk, wherever he was. The man was a genius and I cringe when 1200ish players think that the old masters would be out of their depth at GM level.
He would still be the best, anytime, anywhere. :-)
Along the idea of tonydals question in another thread , while on it's way, what if the time machine carrying Alekhine was hit by the time machine carrying Morphy?
orangehonda wrote:
Along the idea of tonydals question in another thread , while on it's way, what if the time machine carrying Alekhine was hit by the time machine carrying Morphy?
That's just silly. Morphy's time machine was destroyed when he hit Fischer.
Hi,
It always interest me: “How good old masters were?“ You know all the famous chess masters of early era of chess, where they would be now? What about Bird, Blackburne, Nimzovitch, Steinitz, Tarrash or even great ones as Aleknine, Lasker, Andersen Adolf, Capa ..etc? Everyone talk about their power, about their great play, but if they live now...? Can for example Alekhine beat Kramnik?