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Why philidor is the greatest chess player of all time.
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bobee fishir
Jun 25, 2020
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Jebediah_mushroom wrote:
bobee fishir
Fisher didn't contribute to chess, in fact he was afraid of karpov!
no he had conditions and he went mental.
ALSO HE ADDED THE INCREMENT
Jun 25, 2020
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Jebediah_mushroom wrote:
no he had conditions and he went mental.
ALSO HE ADDED THE INCREMENT
Exactly, that's why he's evil.
wdym. The increment is used in the most popular time controls like 3/2, 15/2, 90/30 etc
Jun 25, 2020
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#9
i am the best, what are you saying?! ive reported the OP for verbal abuse
#stoptheengineabuse 
Jun 25, 2020
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#10
"Philidor is a 1500 Rated scrub who could barely the his shoes" - Barrak Obama
Jun 25, 2020
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#11
st0ckfish wrote:
i am the best, what are you saying?! ive reported the OP for verbal abuse
#stoptheengineabuse
In case anyone couldn’t tell, i obviously did not
Jun 26, 2020
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#12
Steven-ODonoghue wrote:
Blackburne is the greatest of all time.
Blackburn contributed nothing to chess, therefore philidor is greater.
Jun 26, 2020
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#13
Bent Larsen agreed on Philidor as the greater player because he was more ahead of his rivals than others.
Jun 26, 2020
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#15
Most top players Aagree that you're wrong.
"Philidor was a player in the mid 1700s, and his strength was probably also in the mid 1700s" Ben finegold
Jun 26, 2020
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#16
Finegold disproves of the Yugoslav against the dragon, it's not like he contributed to chess theory either.
Greco died in 1634, Philidor was born in 1726. They were hardly contemporaries. Chess had evolved quite a bit in almost a century. But Philidor in his prime was clearly the strongest player in the world. On the other hand, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5?!, which was Philidor's idea, is pretty poor
Jun 26, 2020
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Laskersnephew wrote:
Greco died in 1634, Philidor was born in 1726. They were hardly contemporaries. Chess had evolved quite a bit in almost a century. But Philidor in his prime was clearly the strongest player in the world. On the other hand, 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5?!, which was Philidor's idea, is pretty poor
It was played by morphy therefore it was an excellent idea.
"It was played by morphy therefore it was an excellent idea."
It may be a great "idea" but it's a pretty bad move
Philidor is the greatest player of all time, because he invented modern chess. Before philidor, people like greco would miss mate in ones all the time. Once he appeared, basic tactical blunders instantly vanished. Not only that he invented basic positional chess, which is necessary for more complex positional chess to evolve. If it wasn't for philidor, we would have been stuck making basic tactical blunders. Therefore, philidor is the greatest chess playing entity that will ever exist.