Author: Jason
Date: 22:35:11 08/10/99
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Garry Kasparov has proved this year that he clearly is the best chess player ever in the history of the world. He has surpassed Fischer even when Fischer was at his best--just analyze his game against Topalov in the Linares tournament in which he sacrificed two rooks and a knight and won the game. Also, in response to the other point, if Morphy and Anderssen knew how to play modern chess, who knows how they would do? But if we were to rank them by modern standards, they probably would not have an ELO of more than 2300. Lasker, on the other hand, knew much more about positional play than they did, and could easily be ranked in the top twenty chess players in the history of the world. Capablanca showed, however, that great openings knowledge wasn't necessarily essential, but for most players, the great openings knowledge comes in handy in preparation, so the older generation players would lose out on that. It is almost impossible to compare older players of this century (Lasker, Capablanca, Alekhine) with the modern players who have all the openings knowledge. However, it is clear that all modern players with a title of IM or better are better than the players who existed before Steinitz won the first official world chess championships.
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