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Subject: Re: 70 year-old Viktor Korchnoi wins Biel 2001 tournament !! (OT)

Author: Jason Williamson

Date: 09:36:58 08/04/01

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On August 04, 2001 at 07:03:10, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:

>On August 03, 2001 at 13:57:17, Joshua Lee wrote:
>
>>Korchnoi is the man.
>>I wonder how he does it. Smyslov is around his age ,
>
>No way! Smyslov is at least ten years older. Still, I think Korchnoi now plays
>better than Smyslov at seventy.
>José.
>
>>Higher rated at one time
>>but not anymore. Another example is Karpov he is 20 years younger but is
>>starting to decline. Maybe someone should do a De Groot Type study of this?!

Korch might be playing better now then Symslov at 50!  He is in the top 40, when
was the last time Symslov has been there?

:D



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