I liked Kasparov. I never had enough respect for Karpov. Bobby Fischer wouldn't play with Karpov so they stripped thr title from Fischer. I'm not saying that Karpov is'nt a good chess player. He had his days. I liked Morpy, Capablanca, Alekhine, Tal; There's some good players out there. I got through a book with all the greats from Morphy too Krominic. Out of all the chess players in the world only 2% become masters. What's bad too you can read books, watch videos, 1000's of books, take lessons, play 100,000 games and only 2% will become a master. What terrible odds. You have better odds winning the lottery. But for the love of the game. I'll keep reading and studying. It's better to learn what I can learn. I have my goals set.
Fighting Spirit
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Oct 7, 2014
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I've just started the games of Morphy. I did "Tal the Magnificant!" from Chess Digest, which had lots of attacks and exciting sacrifices. These seem to be "fighting chess" games!
Check out the Bobby Fischer games, Capablanca, Alekine, Mikhal Tal, There are some opening books with one specific opening that you can learn with games placed by different Masters and players. Use the web and search for different games you might be interested in. Ther's a website: www.chessgames.com. You can goall the way back into the 1700's back in Philidor's day and find his games all the way to today. Do some searches and look for some of your interests. Ther's a world of wonder on the web. You can find a lot of stuff out there for free. Data, music, chess info. You can trace just about anything with a PC. There's a lot of free chess apps, too.
you need to have a will to win if you want anything in life.
persistence usually wins the girl's heart and leads her to marry you.
duh.
Among the top contenders, who has the most "fighting spirit" in chess?
I am using "fighting spirit" as the will to fight in losing positions, the will to try to win as black, the eschewing of short draws, etc.
Much has been written about Fischer's fighting spirit, especially as black.
Is Carlsen in this same category? Anand?
How was Kasparov, in his hey day, when he fought Karpov?