Author: Albert Silver
Date: 15:17:06 09/16/04
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>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.
He's more active than Gary, but I wouldn't write off Kasparov just yet. People
were doing that in 95-96 after he had a few lackluster results, and suddenly he
decided to get serious again, and left everyone trying to pick up the pieces of
their chess faces, so to speak. ;-)
Anyhow, Fine is a top candidate, but remember he also declined the opportunity
to play for the WC in 1948 despite being invited. Rubinstein is another matter.
Rubinstein never got the opportunity.
Albert
>
>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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