GREG IS ALL WET

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. -- help bot (aka Greg Kennedy) again spouting his
Fischer-envy

From my interview with 5-time U.S. champion GM Larry Evans in WILL
FISCHER WIN THE ENDGAME OF HIS LIFE? (July 2004)

http://tinyurl.com/354gcb

The men of chess who strayed into the path of this Ultimate Tornado of
a Gamesman were swirled high into the intellectual ether. An old
Fischer enemy in Sovietsky Sport could only splutter, "A miracle has
occurred," to describe one of the American's results. Mikhail
Botvinnik, the iron icon of Red materialism, charged that God was on
Bobby's side. Tal, too, took up religious imagery, calling Fischer
"the greatest genius to have descended from the chessic sky." Raymond
Keene described Bobby as "a kind of angry chess god incarnate ... waging
total warfare on the chess board." Miguel Najdorf was almost downbeat,
merely claiming that Fischer "simply throws the pieces up in the air,
and somehow they land on the right squares!" Which might have been
because, as Isaac Kashdan opined, "in Fischer's hands a slight
theoretical advantage is as good as being a Queen ahead." Jack
Collins, Fischer's old teacher, answered an interviewer's question
about his charge's weaknesses by responding, "I think that your
question makes an assumption which no longer applied to him .... You
see, he had no weaknesses as a chessplayer. He had only strengths - a
fierce will to win, great stamina, a memory nonpareil, extraordinary
visualization, knowledge unmatched, and even long experience."

We return to the days of yesteryear with Grandmaster Larry Evans who
remembers Bobby as he knew him - Bobby the friend, Bobby the chess
genius, Bobby the man, and as time passed, Bobby the fugitive. We will
also talk about Bobby the prisoner - in jail and of his own mind.




help bot wrote:
On Jan 22, 11:55 am, Paul wrote:

Even an idiot like you has stated
that AK had a lower rating than BF, so
there is some actual data, dimwit, not
idle speculation.

Having a high rating is no help when it comes to
overcoming irrational fears, Skippy. Indeed, the
higher the rating, the more such fears can be
magnified, the more one perceives he has to lose,
the farther one feels he has to fall.

Fischer would have crushed Karpov, Dickky.

The data is there.

Where?


Before their match in 1972, Bobby Fischer could
not manage even a single win against the lower-
rated Boris Spassky! As top players have put it
so many times, "Tal beats Petrosian, Petrosian
beats Kortchnoi, Kortchnoi beats Keres, and
Keres beats Tal" -- though I have forgotten the
correct sequence of players.

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.
Compared to a Russian championship tourney,
that is akin to Wilt Chamberlain playing a team
of midgets (aka "little people").

Besides, if the chicken won't show up to the
board, it makes no difference how high-rated he
may be, or how strong a player when he does
play. You see, in order to win, you gotta play
the game. As the lottery people put it, you
can't win if you don't play. If anyone had any
doubts whatever, they ought to have been
erased in 1992, when BF once again ducked
his strongest rivals in favor of a 2500+ rabbit.

Oh, and by the way Skip, you shouldn't base
your "reasoning" (such that it is) on what you
maintain are the comments and opinions of
"idiots"; that's because idiots can't be trusted
to brush their own teeth, let alone get the facts
right. Now run along and take your meds. The
doctors will let you play bullet-chess tomorrow.


-- help bot