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Kaliman555

Who do you think would win in a match between Bobby Fischer and Alexander Alekhine? 

Smellfungus
Chessmetrics has a chart on historic chess players and their Elo during their peak 3 years, adjusted for Elo inflation. Fischer is ranked #2 (Kasparov is #1) with an Elo of 2867. Alekhine is #6 with an Elo of 2841. So it would be a close match with Fischer edging a win against Alekhine if the match were at least 12 games due primarily to his superior opening knowledge. If Alekhine had a couple of years to prepare and could stay off the sauce I think it would be a toss up but Fischer would still be the favorite.
borovicka75
Such questions are senseless. Just enjoy games of these legends and dońt make irrelevant constructions.
ranger22612

Alekhine got checkmated by the KGB.

ranger22612

Meanwhile, Fischer resigned from life.

ranger22612
evenrow wrote:

they are both dead

bingo!

Kaliman555

I had the "Chessmaster" personalities "Alekhine" and "Fischer" play a 12 game match and although Fischer won Alekhine scored some nice wins.

Here's a link to the game https://youtube.com/shorts/eqDVHs28kMQ?si=LgvkZ88cpVXuoj9s