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Who Was the Greatest Chess Player Ever...???
Posted on 03/08/2006 1:46:04 PM PST by Cyropaedia
Now for something completey different.
OK, who was the greatest chess player ever...??
My personal vote goes to the nineteenth century's Paul Morphy. No other champion dominated his contemporaries the way Morphy dominated his peers.
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No other champion was as far ahead of his time.
To: Cyropaedia
You have heard of the Chat forum, right? :-)
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:46:56 PM PST
by
newgeezer
(a fundamentalist, regarding the Holy Bible AND the Constitution. Words mean things.)
To: Cyropaedia
Oh boy! I can smell some pics of that old kooky bastard, Bobby Fischer, coming this way!!
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:47:04 PM PST
by
Sax
To: Liberal Classic; ChessExpert
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:47:13 PM PST
by
Michael Goldsberry
(Lt. Bruce C. Fryar USN 01-02-70 Laos)
To: Cyropaedia
I'll put in a vote for Lasker.
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:47:33 PM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: Cyropaedia
I kicked his @ss in 7th grade in checkers.....buried him in tiddly winks... amateur all the way.
To: Cyropaedia
To: Cyropaedia
Some guy no one has ever heard of. Guaranteed.
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:48:01 PM PST
by
GreatOne
(You will bow down before me, son of Jor-el!)
To: Sax
And what a miserable kook he is. America finally gets a great Chess Player and he turnes out to be someone like that? To be fair, he's clearly mentally ill.
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:48:17 PM PST
by
Borges
To: Cyropaedia
To: Republicus2001
I believe you mean
Deep Blue. And Kasparov pwned it.
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:49:32 PM PST
by
Gordongekko909
(I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
To: Sax
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:50:41 PM PST
by
al baby
(Father of the Beeber)
To: Borges
Ok I couldn't wait
"Ack! Snakes! Get your filthy hands off of me!!
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:50:46 PM PST
by
Sax
To: al baby
Thanks, and to think I only needed to wait 5 seconds more. Wow, looks like he's really going down hill now. I think my pic is about 2-3 years old.
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:52:02 PM PST
by
Sax
To: YouPosting2Me
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:52:17 PM PST
by
al baby
(Father of the Beeber)
To: Gordongekko909
yes of course. but actually wasn't there a very recent match of man vs. machine? .....
To: Cyropaedia
y personal vote goes to the nineteenth century's Paul Morphy. No other champion dominated his contemporaries the way Morphy dominated his peers. We are in agreement and for the same reason.
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:53:35 PM PST
by
Beowulf
To: Mr. Mojo
I'll put in a vote for Lasker. Really? Over Morphy? I think if they played Morphy still beats him (with adequate preparation).
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:54:09 PM PST
by
Cyropaedia
("Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principal of evil...".)
To: Sax
A case could be made for Bobby Fischer as he accomplished all he did without a organized chess program. I know too little about chess to take a position.
I did play Fischer in the 60's. He made an appearance at Penn State and played about 40 people at once. I happened to be in the rec center and a friend said lets go see him. Wound up playing as there weren't enough players and lasted about 8 moves. The guy was haughty and very ungracious, sneering at his opponents.
Still a turd, I guess.
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posted on
03/08/2006 1:57:07 PM PST
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: kcar
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03/08/2006 3:51:46 PM PST
by
mcar
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