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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