Author: Tord Romstad
Date: 06:56:55 05/23/05
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On May 23, 2005 at 09:04:03, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 23, 2005 at 07:53:19, Tord Romstad wrote: > >>It looks like Topalov, Anand, Leko and Ivanchuk will all all end up with >>higher ratings than Kramnik on the next FIDE rating list. This puts the >>strongest active Russian player on 5th place. >> >>When was the last time there was no Russian among the top four players >>in the world? I just took a quick look at the historical rating lists >>at http://www.chessmetrics.com, and unless I have overlooked something >>we have to go back to February 1935, when Alekhine, Euwe, Flohr and >>Bogolyubov were the four strongest players. If we count the Russian-born >>Alekhine as a Russian, we have to go all the way back to April 1921, >>when the top four were Capablanca, Lasker, Rubinstein and Tartakower. >> >>Tord >2 notes: > >1)Vassily Ivanchuk is from Ukraina and Ukraina was part from USSR in the past. >Did you consider Ukraina and Russia as 2 different countries in the past? This question can be debated, of course. Should we regard the USSR as one country, or a union of countries? But regardless of how we prefer to answer this question, we can choose to look only at players from Russia (considered as one of several states within a union) during the USSR period. This is what I did. I excluded players like Bronstein (Ukraine), Tal (Latvia) and Keres (Estonia) when looking at the historical rating lists. >2)I think that Garry Kasparov is not going to be out of the next fide rating >list. >It is less than a year from his last public game and I see no reason to take him >out only because he said that he quit chess. A matter of choice again. If you read what I wrote above carefully, you will notice that I described Kramnik only as the strongest ACTIVE Russian chess player. Tord
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