Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 13:52:22 02/18/99
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I think we will never know how really great (or not so great), Kamsky was, because of the endless conflicts caused by his father. 2 examples, Ilya Gurevich justifiyably won the Sanford award a few years ago, and beat Gata in their individual match. And Joel Benjamin had a winning position that he lost quite likely because of Gata's pugilistic father causing a big comotion during the game, and that led to Gata winning the US Championship, rather than Joel who was really chipped! It should be remembered that many young talents and prodigies have a period of time where their results really 'Shine' compared to their contempories, and they seem to outclass all before them. This happened with Benjamin & Dlugy in our own country in the early 1980's. Later on they 'settle down', the other top players become famialier with their play, and they no longer conquer the world quite the way they did before. And their are a lot of talented prodigies coming along all the time, Not like with Fischer and Kasparov, but way up their all the same. I think that if Gata were playing today, he would achieve results no better then any of the top 10 Americans do now. Even Yermolinsky had a bright period where it seemed he was outclassing all the other American players. Frankly, I'm tired of hearing how great Gata was. I've seen a lot of them, and I don't think he was really better then any of them. Really, Its insulting to the other top players in our country to keep saying he was. There isn't enough objective evidence of this being true... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On February 18, 1999 at 16:21:51, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On February 18, 1999 at 15:11:45, James Robertson wrote: > >>On February 18, 1999 at 14:25:17, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>I have almost 400 of his games and no computer matches. >> >>What was his rating? >> >>James > > I do not remember the exact figures, but his last published FIDE and PCA >ratings were well over 2700. But each organisation avoided to rate his succeses >in the other's events. Otherwise I think he could have out-rated Kasparov, or at >least come very close.
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