Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 16:12:48 12/20/02
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Already couple of years ago I wrote that the two players are very different. Karpov was already with 9 years old experienced and clever like an old man. He had enormous stamina. Most of the time he won dull endings with slightest advantages. His famous feeling for manoeuvering is his biggest weapon. Kasparov is much more based on incredibly deep and ingenious preparations. He has sensational calculating power. But now take these two personalities in their older age. By force you will see that Kasparov will decrease in his strength more and more. He must go the way of Tal who said good-bye to the extremely tiring calculations with incredible combinations. However Karpov plays still his extremely economical chess. Of course he lost in speed as well. Much of his success is also due to his fame of course. The year 2002 was a great come-back for Karpov, see Prague and now this great show in NY! In a little Internet match he blitzed down GM Roman. Many might now feel regrets that in the 1997/78 FIDE Wch (Groningen/Lausanne) they thought that Anand just lost by chance against Karpov (in the final blitz games!). Karpov is clearly with Bobby Fischer the most successful tournament player of modern times. Kasparov might have the greater genius than Karpov, but he is also much more imbalanced psychologically. Only these two would have had a chance to be compared with Fischer! Just to make the conclusion, I want to state that Fischer is the Greatest of all time because he, different to the Soviets from Aserbeidjan and Russia, now both Russians, had not the extraordinary team support, so as a single individual he tops them all! Hopefully Bobby will come back and later play the Senior League of Chess. Rolf Tueschen (Sorry for the OFF TOPIC, but computer chess is based on chess IMO.)
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