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Emporio
United States3069 Posts
It would make sense that the first "best" player would be whoever first actually understood what the game was about, followed by those that discoved new things, to be later eclipsed by players that took the fundamentals, the new styles, and then combined it with non-gimmicky skill. For other people that know the history of chess and/or bw well, does the descriptions he made of those players accurately match the reality? | ||
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
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OmniEulogy
Canada6600 Posts
 Botvinnik and July <3 Learned something new ^^ | ||
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DumJumJmyWum
United States75 Posts
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Lynda
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NeonFox
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Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
Please carry on as if it was my doing. | ||
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CeriseCherries
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HereBeDragons
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
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nucLeaRTV
Romania822 Posts
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jdseemoreglass
United States3773 Posts
So many of these posters say they love chess, and they aren't participating in the TL chess match?  | ||
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Ricemagical
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urashimakt
United States1591 Posts
On October 01 2011 05:20 heyoka wrote: I spotlighted this. Thanks, Heyoka. I never find myself looking in the blog section but some of the most entertaining posts end up in here. | ||
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remember87
Sweden144 Posts
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whatthefat
United States918 Posts
On October 01 2011 05:03 Emporio wrote: I'm really interested not just by the relatively similarities of the players' success charts, but also by the comparisons you made to their play style. It would make sense that the first "best" player would be whoever first actually understood what the game was about, followed by those that discoved new things, to be later eclipsed by players that took the fundamentals, the new styles, and then combined it with non-gimmicky skill. For other people that know the history of chess and/or bw well, does the descriptions he made of those players accurately match the reality? I did my best to match up players who I felt had something important in common, in terms of career progression, history, contribution to the game, and style. July/Botvinnik is probably the biggest stretch - historically they match up very nicely, but stylistically they are very different. Of course, some will probably not agree with some of the comparisons, and in deciding to draw parallels between the histories I was forced to leave out some players who did not have a clear doppelganger. | ||
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whatthefat
United States918 Posts
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Cosmos
Belgium1077 Posts
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Hier
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surfinbird1
Germany999 Posts
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