You can have anyone's playing style ever. Who do you pick?

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HorrorBringer

You have a credit where you can play at 2800 level, but in the style of any player before you. You do you choose?

I think I'd choose Karpov. I want a strangulating, positional game. I don't want to knock someone out with a shot from the dark, or any fireworks like Tal. I don't want it to be over quick. I want them to know what's happening to them. I want them to feel the noose around their neck and the slow, horrible tightening around them. I want them to be able to do nothing, while I rack of tiny, almost imperceptible advantages, and then crush the air slowly out of them. I want them to know the end is coming for 60 moves, and be able to do nothing about it but hurt. I'd pick Karpov. 

MitSud
I'd go tal, I want to completely obliterate my opponents, or die trying...
HorrorBringer
MitSud wrote:
I'd go tal, I want to completely obliterate my opponents, or die trying...

 

So you just wanna leave a blood stain and crying wives huh? 

I want my opponent to get up from the board in agony, exhausted, walk quietly over to the corner of the room, and begin weeping, knowing his demise was coming for three hours, but being powerless to stop it. Knowing every mistake he made, I'd take advantage of. But slowly, so that he didn't' even know why it happened. He just felt like he had no air left. Like a boa constrictor squeezing someone to death. 

HorrorBringer

Keep in mind this is what I wish I could do. Not anything like what I can do :'-( 

pdve

I would pick Kasparov. 16 piece calculations and combinations till  7 moves ahead. That's what I would go for.

 

JoeEnergydeFarias

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