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Subject: Re: OT: Has Korchnoi ever compared Karpov/Fischer/Kasparov/Anand/Kramnik

Author: Tom Brake

Date: 14:00:49 06/24/04

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On June 24, 2004 at 15:04:32, Andrei P wrote:

>On June 24, 2004 at 10:49:33, Kevin Heider wrote:
>
>>Since Korchnoi has been one of the greatest GMs since the 60's, has he ever
>>commented on who he thinks is/was the greatest and compared the styles of
>>Spassky/Fischer/Karpov/Kasparov/Anand/Kramnik, etc.?
>>
>>Congrats to Korchnoi for accomplishing something that few ever will!
>>He has been one of the world's top players through 5 world champions!
>>
>>I'm 31 and play at the 1800 level.  But when I am 73, I will be glad if I don't
>>hang pieces every 3rd move.
>>
>>-- Kevin Heider
>
>
>I bet Korchnoj would just bad-mouth all of them. I read a recent interview of
>him,  and he seem to enjoy pouring dirt on everybody.

Depending on who you talk to about it, there's very good reason for the dirt
pouring.  Perhaps he would not do so regarding Anand/Kramnik and maybe not even
Fischer, but I'm sure he would certianly bad-mouth Karpov :)



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