Author: Joseph Merolle
Date: 14:02:27 09/16/04
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Well he beat both Kaspy and Karpov in tounament play at the higt of their renaissance. I am wondering if he has anything left to offer stephen. On September 16, 2004 at 16:47:30, Stephen Ham wrote: >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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