Author: martin fierz
Date: 22:03:48 08/19/02
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>I thought this was about players of Fischer's era? Vincent specifically >mentioned his name... here's vincent's o-tone, where he is referring to nunn's book which is about this karlsbad tournament: >>In fact a grandmaster did this comparision. He compared a top tournament >>in 1991 with a top tournament from 1920. The grandmaster was called Nunn >>if i remember well. >> >>The last few players in that tournament around the start of the 20th >>century, they simply blundered away piece >>after piece. Would be rated at most 1500 nowadays. >> >>The 'better players' in the tournament, considered *clear world top* >>back then, they blundered on average 5 times a game. >> >>*no modern topgrandmaster is doing that*., he mentioned fischer's name before that, and then went on to the real olde time players. who played much worse. fischer was a great player and vincent's claim that any 2650 of today would whip him is ridiculous IMO. what i found really interesting about nunn's comparison is things like tartakower's Qxf6+??, which i would not have expected. the problem is, of these guys there are only very little games published, of course only their best. the rest has been forgotten, and rightly so :-) aloha martin
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