Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 13:47:30 09/16/04
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On September 15, 2004 at 21:36:11, Joseph Merolle wrote: >Most say this person is Viktor Korchnoi however although not a popular vote I >think this person by far is Yassar Seirawan! Yassar stoped both Kaspy , Karpov, >and crushed Viktor Korchnoi. I think people just vote for their underdog rather >then looking at facts and who the better players really are. I should add >Kasparov was in his prime when Yassar beat him (more then once) back when no one >could tauch him. Love to here your agreement or disagrement. > >Yassar Come out of Retirement with the Fide Knox outs you still have a chance to >bring the title back to USA! All in agreement say I. > >Regards JAMerolle Hello Joe, There are plenty of applicants for this title. The chief of which are: Keres, Korchnoi, Fine, and Reshevsky. One might even tongue-in-cheek add Vishy Anand's name to the list. Sure he won the FIDE World Ch. in 2000, but the FIDE World Ch. then was not a real (classical chess) World Championship, played under the qualifying and final standards of former REAL championships. Nonetheless I'd argue that Anand's the world's strongest player at present. Respectfully, I don't think that Seirawan even comes close to qualifying for this title, Joe. In spite of one-off victories over some top-tier players, Yasser was never a top-tier player himself. He also never near the top of the rating lists, even at his peak. He also never had the tournament/match victories that the other applicants to this title did. So I question how much due-diligence you performed when suggesting Seirawan, Joe. Stephen
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