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What historic chess player would you want to me...

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I got this question from Bruce Pandolfini's column at ChessCafe.

http://www.chesscafe.com/bruce/bruce.htm

For me, after reading The Immortal Game, I would like to spend an hour with Ben Franklin. I am from Philadelphia and I think he would be an interesting person to play chess with.


edit:
and I might also bring a sample and directions for making penicillin, an AK-47 and a colt 1911 model .45 cal handgun.

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Ben Franklin...he would be more interested about hot stoves than chess.
ok, mine would be Emanuel Lasker or Vassily Smyslov

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If you read The Immortal Game you would know that you are wrong...

He even wrote an article about the Morals of Chess.

http://www.chessville.com/misc/Quotes/misc_trivia_quotes_Franklin.htm

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Gary Kasparov.

A lesson from the greatest chess player that ever lived would be an honour.

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Tal, without a doubt. Tal won the worlds 5 min championship, I believe in the 1980's. Long after his peak at regular chess. This is a tribute to his dynamic play.

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Originally posted by Ice Cold
Tal, without a doubt. Tal won the worlds 5 min championship, I believe in the 1980's. Long after his peak at regular chess. This is a tribute to his dynamic play.
I agree, Tal would be my choice hands down! I have never seen one of his games that didn't blow my mind. I feel i'm fairly reasonable at chess, no master, but i can give most people a reasonable game. Tal on the other hand, he was so special!! I could analyse one of his games for a week and not come close to understanding it. His style is an inspiration, but there is no better way to ruin your chess than studying his games. I got half way through his Bio and had to put it down as i found myself sacrificing Sacrificing SACRIFICING!! 'It's ok, i can sac this bishop, follow it up with a pawn sac that ruins my Queenside pawn structure, trade a rook for a knight and i'll have a great position'....NOT! :'(

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Little Richard. I've heard his chess skills are as funny as his TV commercials.

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...morphy...i could also then be found dead in a bathtub surrounded by
30 or 40 pairs of women's shoes...

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Tal and Capablanca !

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...actually i am already "he"...fred reinfeld...the new york chess writer, author and who sat around in his apartment at the kitchen table while his
wife cooked cabbage...he had an amazing memory...

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Originally posted by incub626
Ben Franklin...he would be more interested about hot stoves than chess.
ok, mine would be Emanuel Lasker or Vassily Smyslov
I played against Smyslov once in a simul over 30 years ago! I got smashed of course!

😕

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Tal - I've been reading his biography over the course of a few months (just a couple of pages every once in a while) and he's just so awesome. Greatest player ever - both as a player and as a person.

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I'd want to be the player who invented the game.

Edit: Hm, or was the question what player I'd want to meet? In that case, replace "be" with "meet".