AndyClifton wrote:
At least Redd Foxx hasn't shown up yet.
lol Who is that?
Is Capablanca the true Mozart of chess and not Carlsen?
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royalbishop wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
At least Redd Foxx hasn't shown up yet.
lol Who is that?
Andy's alter-ego? lol
I think Capablanca is more like Mozart in terms of natural talent. Capablanca supposedly learned the game from watching his father play, and before having played a game himself pointed out an error his father made, and then beat him twice. At age 13, he beat the Cuban chess champion, Corzo, in a match.
And there are so many quotes of people saying utterly superlative things about him. For example,
His real, incomparable gifts first began to make themselves known at the time of St. Petersburg, 1914, when I too came to know him personally. Neither before nor afterwards have I seen – and I cannot imagine as well – such a flabbergasting quickness of chess comprehension as that possessed by the Capablanca of that epoch. Enough to say that he gave all the St. Petersburg masters the odds of 5–1 in quick games – and won!
- Alekhine
I have known many chess players, but only one chess genius: Capablanca.
- Lasker
No that would be Redd Foxx.
konhidras wrote:
Still the criteria of being the "mozart" of chess is confusing.
Okay, let's call him the Rimsky-Korsakov of chess.
konhidras wrote:
royalbishop wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
At least Redd Foxx hasn't shown up yet.
lol Who is that?
Andy's alter-ego? lol
Yesterday it was
royalbishop wrote:
konhidras wrote:
royalbishop wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
At least Redd Foxx hasn't shown up yet.
lol Who is that?
Andy's alter-ego? lol
Yesterday it was
In a few hours maybe..... if you say the wrong thing.
sapientdust wrote:
I think Capablanca is more like Mozart in terms of natural talent. Capablanca supposedly learned the game from watching his father play, and before having played a game himself pointed out an error his father made, and then beat him twice. At age 13, he beat the Cuban chess champion, Corzo, in a match.
And there are so many quotes of people saying utterly superlative things about him. For example,
His real, incomparable gifts first began to make themselves known at the time of St. Petersburg, 1914, when I too came to know him personally. Neither before nor afterwards have I seen – and I cannot imagine as well – such a flabbergasting quickness of chess comprehension as that possessed by the Capablanca of that epoch. Enough to say that he gave all the St. Petersburg masters the odds of 5–1 in quick games – and won!
- Alekhine
I have known many chess players, but only one chess genius: Capablanca.
- Lasker
The 2nd post that actually makes sense.
Dammit, I was just gonna post her! (you old heathen).
But then of course there was Reshevsky. Nobody ever says nice Mozartian things about him.
AndyClifton wrote:
But then of course there was Reshevsky. Nobody ever says nice Mozartian things about him.
The first question i have ever seen of Andy making sense.Good point!
Tal sent his opponents to the hospital in the Middle game.
He got lucky, no more.
konhidras wrote:
The first question i have ever seen of Andy making sense.
You take that back!
AndyClifton wrote:
konhidras wrote:
The first question i have ever seen of Andy making sense.
You take that back!
Give me a great sensible answer and i'll take it back! (with a cherry topping into it)
konhidras wrote:
AndyClifton wrote:
konhidras wrote:
The first question i have ever seen of Andy making sense.
You take that back!
Give me a great sensible answer and i'll take it back! (with a cherry topping into it)
I do not think you will like Andy when he is angry.
It begs the question, who is the Chuck Berry of chess?
Ok, fine, but then who is the Capablanca of music?
Who knows the criteria here? What does it take to be the Mozart of chess? You need to chase women like Mozart??
Capa is the one being chased by women...i just dont know about Carlsen. Still the criteria of being the "mozart" of chess is confusing.