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Subject: Re: The top players of today are much stronger than in the 70's.

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 09:03:40 02/17/03

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On February 17, 2003 at 11:55:13, Marc van Hal wrote:

>On February 17, 2003 at 09:06:49, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On February 16, 2003 at 22:47:18, John Jack wrote:
>>
>>>How much greater would Bobby have been if he had access to the powerfull
>>>computers and software That we have Today (2950ELO)??. I have a issue of chess
>>>life early 70s they list his rating at 2810 (Front Cover)That was over 30 years
>>>ago. When There Was no computer for chess. (Just Books)
>>>
>>> John E Jack
>>
>>If Bobby Fisher was 28 nowadays facing the current top players of today such as:
>>Kasparov, Kramnik, Anand, Shirov, I don't think that he would be higher than
>>2800 even with the technological edge that we have today. My point is that the
>>opponents that Bobby faced back in the 70,s were too weaks compared to the top
>>GMs of today.
>>
>>Pichard.
>
>
>ok lets see who did Boby Fischer meeted along the way
>Euwe
>Botvinnik
>Tal
>Keres
>Spassky
>Petrosian
>Smyslov
>Yes they where all defenitly weaker then todays top players
>Think again!

Lets not forget

Larsen, Geller,& Reshevsky



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