Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 11:18:16 03/06/99
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On March 05, 1999 at 16:55:53, KarinsDad wrote: >On March 05, 1999 at 02:47:05, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: > >>Here I can't resist putting my own two cents in! BIG DEAL - Morphy had a period >>like Tal where he totally crushed even Anderson & Lowanthall. But if you look >>at the careers of these fine getleman, you will find that their careers were >>signifcantly longer, and that their games (of which ultimately there were more >>of), were of very high quality, had more of the (later called hypermodern), >>concepts than morphy's overall, and that if there were no Morphy, these guys >>would have been regonized far more deservedly by the average chess player (chess >>book reader), today! > >Total agreement here with two exceptions. One is that it was a big deal. Morphy >became the recognized first world champion and he won the championship match >while he was ill. > Morphy was never recognized as world champion, only considered by most people as best player in the world. The title was invented after, and was first disputed in a match between Zuckertort and Steinitz. [snip] I read that your favorite players are Capablanca and Tal. Along with Kamsky, they are also my favorites (:
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