Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 16:21:26 02/18/99
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On February 18, 1999 at 16:52:22, Lawrence S. Tamarkin wrote: >I think we will never know how really great (or not so great), Kamsky was, >because of the endless conflicts caused by his father. True and sad, for all that I have read. >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... > That is your opinion which I will not debate, although I disagree. Thanks again for your comments, they are always interesting. >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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