Garry Kasparov - Going the Distance

The way to the World Chess Throne-Kasparov

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Sports

Tags:

• anatoly karpov
• chess
• rocky
• bobby fischer
• capablanca
• tal
• spassky
• kramnik
• world chess champion
• anand

[Haltung]

You show proof or you apologize.

[tavogp]

i would love to had seen kasparov vs fisher

[jilow]

@SuperSmilingSmiley I disagree people adapt, and people blunder. Fischer would win on occasion even if Kasparov was the stronger player. Furthermore, you need to look at people's skills for the time period they are in. They can only push the game so much from their starting information, the next generation of geniuses can push it farther because they start way ahead with all the new information.

[booris31]

1.-KASPAROV

2.-FISHER

3.-LASKER

4.-KARPOV

[AXEL77ism]

FISCHER  - CAPABLANCA - ALEKHINE

[roulleteman7]

Fischer

Kasparov

Morphy

[SuperSmilingSmiley]

@1983rafan Cannot be compared. Today there are more than 70 players in the world that could beat Fischer. Chess has developed a lot since the coming of the computer. Kasparov is a whole different category than Fischer, he would beat him every time because Fischer wouldn't have any useful reply to anything.

[tubertomp]

i was already to like it and add it to favorites if the band cake was the music track

[PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD]

@Phyle9 Yes, there is a noticeable difference in perception of Fischer in the US compared to elsewhere. B/c of the American media, to the amateur public, Fischer was an invincible chess god. And somehow his "disappearance" just added to his mystique. To the rest of the world, he was prodigious, brilliant, visionary, and all that, but he was by no means invincible or even the best ever. There is a difference between a man who defends his title for 2 decades (Kasp.) and one who doesn't at all.

[Phyle9]

@PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD Yeah, Fischer was good. And i mean REALLY good! But not as good as the American media hyped him, like he was the number 1 chess god of all time ;-)

They just bombarded him as a moviestar. He wasn't as good as the russians, and that's why he didn't play in 1975. He was mainly afraid of himself (as Karpov stated in an interview) cause he thought worldchampions weren't allowed to lose a single game. Which is of course unrealistic in chess. He also knew how strong Karpov was....

[PrUnEJuIcEtHeThIrD]

@Phyle9 There's not much doubt in my mind Karpov would've beaten Fischer when they were due to play for the World Championship in 1975. You gotta keep in mind that Fischer had basically disappeared, and presumably stopped playing chess for THREE YEARS after he won it all in 1972.

No matter how good you are a 3-year absence is going to set you back significantly. And Karpov was already an extremely strong player to begin with. It's the same story with Kasparov.