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

Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba

Date: 05:03:43 08/05/01

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On August 04, 2001 at 12:36:58, Jason Williamson wrote:

>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

Smyslov played the candidates final against Kasparov in 1984. Kasparov won and
then played against Karpov for the world championship. I do not have the rating
list for those days, but most likely Smyslov was still in the top 40 (and for
sure he was way older than 50!).
José.



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