if you could go to any tournament in time

 
23rd February 2009, 03:41am
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by jpd303
west virginia United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 1556

Can you imagine being at one of these FIDE candidates  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidates%27_Tournament s?  take 1952-1954 for examble, Kotov, Taimanov, Petrosian, Geller, Averbakh, Gligoric, Euwe, Reshecsky, Smyslov, Keres, Bronstein, Boleslavsky, Najdorf have to duke it out to get to Botvinnik....

or this 1923 Carlsbad tournament http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlsbad_1923_chess_tournament in which Alekhine wins over a field giants that include Bogo, Maroczy, Reti, Grunfeld, Nimzo, Yates, Teichman, Tartakower, Tarrasch, Rubinstein, Samisch, and Spielmann. 

anbody else got any fantasy tournies?

 

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