Author: Uri Blass
Date: 07:03:20 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 07:09:39, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On August 19, 2002 at 23:59:13, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >Bob i know your own active chess was in the 70s. Fischer's >openings in the 70s get completely annihilated now. It doesn't >matter how good you are, if you get dead lost out of opening, >you can go home against todays world top 30. If you are good you do not get dead lost out of the opening. I do not believe fisher of the 70's is going to get lost in the opening against the players of today. It is not enough if you know theory and you need the opponent to blunder if you want to get a winning position. I believe that in most cases fisher of 1972 could find moves that are good enough not to lose by himself. They may not be good enough to be in the theory book and I guess that the most common result may be that fisher of 1972 with his knowledge could get equal position with white or slightly inferior position with black. Slightly inferior is not being dead lost. If 2650 players of today can beat fisher of 1972(I do not know) then it is not only because of better knowledge of opening. Uri
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