THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND....

As far as I know, the only top player who seemed fully objective on such matters, whose writings could be trusted, was GM Botvinnik. Just about everyone else has been affected by the mountain of biased writings which have appeared over the years in the lunatic-controlled press. -- help bot (aka Greg Kennedy)

Utter nonsense. Our Greg yet again demonstrates the amazing depth of
his ignorance. -- Taylor Kingston

If there a name for someone who persists in abysmal errors even
after these abysmal errors have been patiently pointed out to him, it
would have to be Greg Kennedy?

Botvinnik argued that Taimanov had good chances
to defeat Bobby. Tal, on the other hand, was
objective. In notes that were secret at the time, he
counselled Spassky and his fellows to study even
Bobby's five-minute games. He called Fischer the
greatest genius to have descended from the chessic sky
-- much to the annoyance of Soviet Party types.

When I interviewed and spoke with Tal at the old Manhattan
Chess Club, he simply said that Bobby played at a different
level than he and the others. He seconded GM Evans' comment
that against any other great player, one had a chance to recover
after an error; but against Bobby, you were destined to lose. That
is likely what Kashdan meant when he engaged in the hyperbole of
saying that a theoretical edge for Bobby was the same as being
a Queen ahead.

Yours, Larry Parr




Taylor Kingston wrote:
On Jan 22, 12:18?pm, help bot wrote:

? So it is not enough to have FIDE ratings to
compare; you also need to know something
about the players' styles, and perhaps even how
the openings battles would play out. ?Besides, by
and large, BF earned his ultra-high rating by what
is commonly known as "rabbit-bashing", or
beating up on low-rated players, such as in his
repeated victories in the USA championships.

Utter nonsense. Our Greg yet again demonstrates the amazing depth of
his ignorance. Fischer last played in a US Championship in very early
1967; in fact this was his last competition on American soil. His FIDE
rating was barely over 2700 at the time. He retired from chess after
winning the world title in 1972, with a rating about 80 points higher.
Those points came entirely in international competition, most of it
very high-level .
In every one of his 7 tournaments 1967-70 he finished clear first.
Those placing below him read like a "Who's Who in Chess" for the time:
Smyslov, Geller, Larsen, Matanovic, Gligoric, Kholmov, Hort,
Matulovic, Gheorghiu, Korchnoi, Petrosian, Ivkov, Tukmakov, Najdorf,
Reshevsky, Mecking, Huebner, Uhlmann, Portisch, Polugaevsky, Panno,
Taimanov, etc.
And let's not forget the Candidate Matches in which he pasted
Taimanov, Larsen and Petrosian with a combined score of +18 -1 =3. Not
to mention beating a guy named Spassky +7 -2 =11.

Some bunch of rabbits. If those guys were rabbits, then it's the
kind seen he

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg