Author: walter irvin
Date: 15:55:55 10/29/00
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On October 29, 2000 at 16:52:48, C McClain Morris, Jr. wrote: >V Korchnoi is much older than Kasparov, but in my opinion, has more fight than >Kasparov, even when he was in his 60's. I'm not buying fatigue when you're >playing for the world championship. I may accept that Kramnik may be the better >of the two. If Korchnoi had Kasparov's positions in at least two games, Kasparov >would be tied right now. > >Korchnoi was tough even though he did not win the World Championship. > >Ammo Morris not every body ages at the same rate .for every korchnoi there are 100 people who do lose there fight .many grandmasters weaken as they grow older .maybe kasparov burnt himself out .chess players reach there prime some where between 24 and 30 after that they start to fade .i dont mean nose dive but little things start showing up in their games . in an example even though i never was with in a 1000 elo of kasparov , i am 38 years old .when i was in my 20s i played alot harder than i do now .i had more energy to throw into a close hard fought game .also even though i still play chess all the time and enjoy it ,some of the excitement is gone .so im not saying kasparov is over the hill im just saying kasparov's fighting spirit of 1985 is much more than in 2000 .he might be more skillfull ??? but the energy level and fighting spirit are less to more of a degree walter
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