Author: Martin Giepmans
Date: 11:03:22 12/21/02
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On December 21, 2002 at 13:20:17, Uri Blass wrote: >On December 21, 2002 at 12:07:43, Martin Giepmans wrote: > >>On December 21, 2002 at 09:39:21, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >> >>>On December 21, 2002 at 01:02:23, Dux Kazer wrote: >>> >>>> What about V Korchnnoi? ....he is more or less Kasparov (at least most than >>>>Karpov) and He is playing great chess.... >>> >>>I don't know if the old Kasparov is playing chess at the level of the old >>>Korchnoi. I doubt it. Reason: Kasparov has NOT the stamina of Korchnoi, he can >>>be much more disturbed by the environment. But if you like Korchnoi, why not >>>including Smylov, a completely different player, but also extremely strong in >>>old age. >>> >>>BTW about all these topics there should be some research, but alas, it's much >>>easier to let chess programs play automatically and then present statistically >>>invalid results. And then claim GM status. You must not think too much. :) >>> >>>Rolf Tueschen >> >>Korchnoi has a complicated style, but that doesn't necessarily mean >>that he is calculating that much. I think he is essentially a "feeling" >>(or intuitive) type as a chess player, like Karpov, Petrosjan and Smyslow. >>Such players can feel their way even in near complete mental darkness (= zero >>nodes/second in computerchess terms). >> >>As the story goes Petrosjan could smell danger. So maybe we should label >>these players as "smelling types". >>The eyes may become bad, the ears may become deaf, memory may fade, but >>a long as we have a nose ... ;) > >I doubt it. > >I suspect that people who are ill in alzheimer cannot play chess even at 2000 >level even in the first step of their desease(even in case that they were GM's >when they were young) > >I really do not know and it may be interesting to know. > >Uri I guess the mind (whatever that is) must still be OK. Physical health is also very important. The Dutch GM Donner believed that in aging the physical factor is in most cases more important than the mental factor. Martin
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