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?

Probe1

United States17920 Posts

September 30 2011 20:04 GMT

#22

I don't know if I'm grinning so hard because I'm laughing or not. lol what a badass post.

OmniEulogy

Canada6593 Posts

September 30 2011 20:04 GMT

#23

This is absolutely amazing. Feature this! the amount of work deserves praise

Botvinnik and July <3 Learned something new ^^

DumJumJmyWum

United States75 Posts

September 30 2011 20:10 GMT

#24

This is an amazing piece of work! Those analogies are enlightening, never really knew the history of chess other than Kasparov = bonjwa. Thanks!

Lynda

649 Posts

September 30 2011 20:15 GMT

#25

I don't even want to imagine how much effort it must've taken to create that post. Mindblowing comparisons and simply brilliant read. 5/5

NeonFox

2373 Posts

September 30 2011 20:16 GMT

#26

That was very interesting, I got to the end of it without even noticing adn was left with wanting more. The graphs add a lot.

Heyoka

Katowice25012 Posts

September 30 2011 20:20 GMT

#27

Great read, I would have put it in spotlight but someone beat me to it.

Please carry on as if it was my doing.

CeriseCherries

6170 Posts

September 30 2011 20:21 GMT

#28

really good! lol i love the parallels you draw... reminds me of when i actually tried to play chess

HereBeDragons

1429 Posts

September 30 2011 20:26 GMT

#29

Wow, I really really loved this article. It gives you so much to "wow" about.

hypercube

Hungary2735 Posts

September 30 2011 20:29 GMT

#30

Great read, although I would have gone with Nada-Botvinnik for their professionalism and especially July-Tal because both used aggression a psychological weapon.

nucLeaRTV

Romania822 Posts

September 30 2011 20:32 GMT

#31

Very interesting!

jdseemoreglass

United States3773 Posts

September 30 2011 20:33 GMT

#32

Amazing post. Fischer truly was the greatest, until the bonjwa Kasparov arrived on the scene.

So many of these posters say they love chess, and they aren't participating in the TL chess match?

Ricemagical

270 Posts

September 30 2011 20:33 GMT

#33

That was incredible analysis, and comparison.

urashimakt

United States1591 Posts

September 30 2011 20:33 GMT

#34

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.

remember87

Sweden144 Posts

September 30 2011 20:34 GMT

#35

soo amazing!

whatthefat

United States918 Posts

September 30 2011 20:35 GMT

#36

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.

whatthefat

United States918 Posts

September 30 2011 20:36 GMT

#37

Thanks so much for the spotlight! <3

Cosmos

Belgium1077 Posts

September 30 2011 20:46 GMT

#38

This is amazing.

Hier

2391 Posts

September 30 2011 20:47 GMT

#39

Amazing post.

surfinbird1

Germany999 Posts

September 30 2011 20:48 GMT

#40

Epic! All I can say, this has to be featured. I always found the characters behind the game a lot more interesting in chess than the game itself. And a little refresher on Broodwar history won't do any harm. Very nice.