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

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 09:06:24 02/17/03

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On February 17, 2003 at 12:03:40, chandler yergin wrote:

>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
Actually Geller had a plus score against Bobby.. were there any others?



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