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Subject: Re: Will Hikaru give the U.S.A. another World Chess Champion ?

Author: Peter Kappler

Date: 00:19:47 02/16/03

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On February 15, 2003 at 23:41:58, Tony Schleizer wrote:

>On February 15, 2003 at 19:12:09, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>At least he is the first American to brake Bobby Fischer record !
>>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=800
>
>A great accomplishment by Nakamura, but it seems to me that the GM title has
>become easier to obtain over the years. Also, I just looked up Fischer's rating
>at chessmetrics.com, and when he was 15.8 years old, he was ranked number 23 in
>the world (this may not jive with FIDE's list at the time, but I don't have that
>list). According to FIDE's most recent list, Hikaru is number 450 in the world.
>Not all GM's are created equal.
>
>Tony


Totally agree.

Also, Fischer won his first US Championship at 14.  Lets use that as the
measuring stick instead of "GM at 15".  :)

-Peter




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