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

Author: Andrei P

Date: 15:25:26 06/24/04

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On June 24, 2004 at 17:00:49, Tom Brake wrote:

>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 :)


I think he did bad-mouthed Karpov and a bunch of other people in a recent
interview. I saw it in russian somewhere but dont' have the ref.



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