Lasker,Capablanca,Tal and of course Anand
We all wish Anand luck in his quest for the title.
Agreed, Go Anand! you can do it!
No, I don't think Anand is good enough to become champion
Lasker,Capablanca,Tal and of course Anand
We all wish Anand luck in his quest for the title.
Agreed, Go Anand! you can do it!
No, I don't think Anand is good enough to become champion
Anand deserved his title.
Philidor, Rubinstein, Bronstein, Keres, Geller, Nezhmetdinov, Polugaevski, Korchnoj, Ivanchuk, Shirov... just to name a few. The list could be endless.
Lasker,Capablanca,Tal and of course Anand
We all wish Anand luck in his quest for the title.
Agreed, Go Anand! you can do it!
No, I don't think Anand is good enough to become champion
here we go again! A bellow 2000 rated player judging the 5 times World Chess Champion!WOW!
pillsubury
Chanakya was a great chess player he could pawn all of u
Interesting thing about Bent Larsen....
Around 1970, when the match between the Soviet Union and the Rest of the World was about to take place, Larsen insisted on having board 1 over Fischer, saying his success in recent tournaments justified him being on board 1.
Everyone expected a dispute, but Fischer gave up board 1 to Bent. I think it was in that tournament that Bent suffered a horrible defeat against Spassky (17 moves) while Fischer did well against Petrosian (who was board 2 for the Soviet Union.)
Some people thought Fischer agreed to let Bent play board 1 so Fischer wouldn't have to play Spassky (the Soviet Union's board 1.) While Fischer got a lot of accolades in the chess and non-chess press, his reason for giving up board 1 was probably due to self-interest - he beat Petrosian on board 2 and Spassky pretty much crushed Larsen on board 1.
Lasker,Capablanca,Tal and of course Anand
We all wish Anand luck in his quest for the title.
Agreed, Go Anand! you can do it!
No, I don't think Anand is good enough to become champion
Dude! Anand already is champion! what kind of fool are you?
Dude! Anand already is champion! what kind of fool are you?
Nobody answer that!
Bent Larsen was a overall punk and horrible human being. My money is on Norman Whitaker.
Just out of curiousity. what are you basing the comment about B.Larsen on? As far as I know he was not worse than most people. I never heard anyone speak bad about him before.
Indeed, Larsen could be outspoken but was hardly seen as a bad person. Here are some quotes from an interview with him from 2005, found at http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2241
On the subject why he never won the title:
I understand that at that time there were some chess players who played better than me
Some other slightly edited quotes:
Have you ever wanted to play like some other chess player?
Certainly, I have. When I was young, Tal was my idol! Fortunately, I have never tried to play in his style – I just liked to watch him playing. Tal was a fearless fighter. Nobody could successfully accomplish so many incorrect maneuvers!
By the way, whom do you call the greatest chess player in the history of chess?
The question is too abstract. However, I have the answer. Undoubtedly, it is Philidor
And whom would you name from your former opponents? Is it, probably, Fischer?
I don’t know… Probably, it’s Korchnoi – his chess longevity is amazing!
Is there any sense in this title [World Champion] in general?
I think that it doesn’t have much sense. In chess we can use the tennis system when there is no champion. The first position in the rating list is quite enough!
Well, who do you think would win if the strongest chess players of your generation at their heyday met today’s elite chess players?
It is a very difficult question. I think that we would win! However, I like Kasparov ’89 more than Fischer’72.
I vote for Viktor Korchnoi
me too
Fritz or Deep Blue.
magnus carlsen??? Best player but never world champion?
Paul Keres obviously.
Rubinstein
Offically Paul Morphy was never a world champion so he would be my pick, however as at least one other poster mentioned, Harry Pillsbury would be a good pick as well (and happens to be my favorite). Sammy Reshevsky too deserves mention
The Fischer-Reshevsky match was even when it was called off due to the sponsor wanting to change the time of the following game (which Fischer refused to comply with) so she could attend a concert given by her husband.
But I think Fischer was superior in later years. At one tournament, he purposefully showed up nearly an hour late for his game with Reshevsky and sat down at the board a few minutes before he would have forfeited the game for non-appearance. Reshevsky was so rattled that he blundered a piece and lost.
Aronian isn't one of the top candidates yet, but I doubt that any other player has 5-0 in wins (including four black wins in a row!) against a reigning World Champion:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1485778
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1504627
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1535805
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1563935
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1641830
Bronstein.