Susan Polgar
November 20, 2010
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Garry
yep, gazza is for sure…
Hey you Garry / Gazza guys. U got it all wrong! The best by a mile was good ole ‘Bobby’ Fischer. And right now it is ‘Vishy’ Anand. He is miles ahead of where he was when he lost to Garry and his antics. As for Carlsen, I remember seeing a video interview with Bobby ,where he was asked what it takes to become World Chess Champion. He said ‘character and determination to stay the course’ without being sidetracked by other diversions. Anand has it but Magnus not quite,perhaps later but I doubt it.
Vishy is a coffee house player and Carlsen does not have the discipline to practice enough hours to beat the likes of players like Kramnik, Anand and Topalov…
Aronian is steady and continuing to get stronger. Carlsen is beginning to show cracks and is complaining about “formats”…not a positive sign.
Right now an Anand vs. Aronian match would be perfect.
it never fails, no matter what the topic someone has to bring up fischer…. get over it, he is gone. Perhaps if people would stop ‘pining’ over the past they would notice todays great stars.
Ah, yes, Fischer was really good at ‘staying the course’.
He refused to play in the 1964 Interzonal, even though the Candidates was now a match system.
He withdrew part way through the 1967 Interzonal for no good reason.
He refused to play in the 1969 US Championship (a Zonal), so wouldn’t have been in the 1970 Interzonal if Benko hadn’t given him his place.
He would never have made the plane trip to Iceland in 1972 if it hadn’t been for Jim Slater and Henry Kissinger.
Once in Iceland, he behaved so badly at the start of the WC match that Spassky would have been perfectly entitled and justified to have walked away taking the match by default.
He demanded ridiculous conditions for defending his title in 1975 and when they weren’t met, defaulted his title.
Yeah, Fischer was really good at ‘staying the course’!!