Fischer's Top Ten Players

paulbuchmanfromfics

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09 Oct 08 17:56

paulbuchmanfromfics

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10 Oct 08 02:28

Reshevsky was a big contender for the crown. He reallys shook the Soviets up at Zurich 1953. They pulled some strings to keep him away from Botvinnik. 🙂

passedpawn22

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10 Oct 08 03:00

Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
Can we do sort of a 6 degrees of seperation ( Kevin Bacon) between Fischer and Staunton?

Fischer played staunton pieces! 😛

sh76

Civis Americanus Sum

New York

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17 Oct 08 17:06

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Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
Reshevsky was a big contender for the crown. He reallys shook the Soviets up at Zurich 1953. They pulled some strings to keep him away from Botvinnik. 🙂

Oh, I know Reshevsky was a great player. He lived maybe 5 minutes away from me and his nephew is a good friend of mine.

Talent is not the reason I though Fischer would ignore him...

~~robbie carrobie~~

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17 Oct 08 17:18

its his appraisal of Alekhines games, he says that if you seen one you seen them all, however i must admit, that out of any of the great masters, Fischer seem to be the most understandable.

petrovitch

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17 Oct 08 17:40

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Originally posted by sh76
Oh, I know Reshevsky was a great player. He lived maybe 5 minutes away from me and his nephew is a good friend of mine.

Talent is not the reason I though Fischer would ignore him...

My favorite story between Fischer and Reschevsky is when Fischer showed up late for the game and had only five minutes remaining on his clock ... and still beat Reschevsky. 🙂

I played Reschevsky a couple of correspondence games. He crushed me in both games. Both games were Sicilian Najdorf.

You are now obligated to find out information about Reschevsky that is not widely know. With you contact we want something new about him.

Korch

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Riga

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17 Oct 08 17:45

Originally posted by Fat Lady
Quick quiz - what do Fischer and Staunton have in common (something which they didn't have in common until this year).

Both of them avoided matches with strong opponents. Fischer with Karpov and Staunton with Morphy

tomtom232

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17 Oct 08 19:59

Originally posted by Korch
Both of them avoided matches with strong opponents. Fischer with Karpov and Staunton with Morphy

The difference is that Staunton new that Morphy would beat him... Fischer probably would have defended his title against Karpov.

paulbuchmanfromfics

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17 Oct 08 20:42

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I think Fischer thought that he had reached the top and could only go down from there. I don't believe he was afraid of Karpov but maybe more afraid of losing in general. Who knows though? The way he fanatically prepared for opponents, maybe Karpov did bother him. It would have been interesting to see if he could have topped the paranoi of the Spassky match.

tomtom232

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17 Oct 08 20:48

Originally posted by paulbuchmanfromfics
I think Fischer thought that he had reached the top and could only go down from there. I don't believe he was afraid of Karpov but maybe more afraid of losing in general. Who knows though? The way he fanatically prepared for opponents, maybe Karpov did bother him. It would have been interesting to see if he could have topped the paranoi of the Spassky match.

I don't really think he was afraid of Karpov.. I think he just wanted to leave the chess world after making it to the top like his Idol Morpy did.