Your move, Steinitz
by Filip Bondy
NY Daily News
The Blahg is back after a brief stay-cation. And Tom Watson’s bad ending at the British Open title got me thinking about all the other pseudo-sports that have the potential to produce champions who are older than I am – a ridiculous concept, considering how much my left knee is hurting as I write this.
There are quite a few, actually: horse racing (Willie Shoemaker was 58 when he won his last race); car racing, yachting, chess (Wilhelm Steinitz held the world championship until the age of 58 years, 10 days); equestrian; bridge; shooting.
A lot of these so-called sports events are at the Olympics. In fact, I think 70-year-olds could probably clean up half the gold medals, if they just cared enough about stuff like curling and put in the necessary training. The problem is that older people start reading books and that’s the end of them, when it comes to these things.
The British Open also made me realize that Tiger Woods is the luckiest man alive.
Here is the full article.
How about Smyslov or Korchnoi?
“How about Smyslov or Korchnoi?”
Neither one of them was a champion at advanced age. Korchnoi wasn’t champion at all.
“Korchnoi wasn’t champion at all.”
This will be the first and the last time you talk about me in your life! Ja!?
Yeah Steinitz, and theve been deliberately cheating in chess every since this guy became some kinda champ in the 1800s. WHITE this and WHITE that, just read their ridiculous books, now they trying to change since they got exposed on the Chessdrum, so they try to passify people with a few black to move puzzle in their magazines,well theses European Assizes is outta time.
Lionel, what are you babling about?