Anand makes +2800 in new FIDE ratings
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At what rating did kapsparov top? Wasn't that around 2850?
oginschile wrote:
Reb: Out of curiosity, where would you say Kasparov fits in the world's greatest? Obviously you have Fischer as number one... would you put Kasparov as number 2? Or would you have him farther down the list?
Re: Anand, classy player, classy guy. My favorite Anand media clips are of him in press conferences after his games with a large demonstration board, and him breaking down 4 hours of his genius into a 30 second blurb... arms whipping the pieces around the board, and giving that blank Anand stare at the press room when he's done to see if there are any questions... before darting off to be back at Aruna's side. He seems to find more comfort just being at his wife's side than touting his own genius in front of a room full of cameras.
Ofcourse Fischer is #1 for me and I would put Kasparov second on my own list of greatest players. I agree that Anand has a lot of class, perhaps the most of any of the top players. I predict his match with Kramnik will go without a hitch as long as Anand is never leading, but if Kramnik falls behind watch for dirty tricks and accusations from the Kramnik side. Kasparov was trailing after 9 games of his match with Anand and then accused Anand of stealing some of his "work" from his PC and Anand began to lose games. The russian players have always shown they will stoop to anything to win. One reason I admire Spassky is that he would NOT do those things. Spassky even refused to return home during his 1972 match with Fischer and insisted on playing the match.
Agreed. For me Spassky was a super class act... as well as Tal. This of course only from what I've read as I have no personal experience with them.
Anand is an extremely likeable personality from what can be gleaned from the media (not always a very accurate data source).
Okay....
The ratings aren't that accurate and a 2600 COULD beat a 2800...so to me they're all the same, and they could beat and lose to each other..
Reb wrote: oginschile wrote:
Reb: Out of curiosity, where would you say Kasparov fits in the world's greatest? Obviously you have Fischer as number one... would you put Kasparov as number 2? Or would you have him farther down the list?
Re: Anand, classy player, classy guy. My favorite Anand media clips are of him in press conferences after his games with a large demonstration board, and him breaking down 4 hours of his genius into a 30 second blurb... arms whipping the pieces around the board, and giving that blank Anand stare at the press room when he's done to see if there are any questions... before darting off to be back at Aruna's side. He seems to find more comfort just being at his wife's side than touting his own genius in front of a room full of cameras.
Ofcourse Fischer is #1 for me and I would put Kasparov second on my own list of greatest players. I agree that Anand has a lot of class, perhaps the most of any of the top players. I predict his match with Kramnik will go without a hitch as long as Anand is never leading, but if Kramnik falls behind watch for dirty tricks and accusations from the Kramnik side. Kasparov was trailing after 9 games of his match with Anand and then accused Anand of stealing some of his "work" from his PC and Anand began to lose games. The russian players have always shown they will stoop to anything to win. One reason I admire Spassky is that he would NOT do those things. Spassky even refused to return home during his 1972 match with Fischer and insisted on playing the match.
Good reply Reb..
I too place Fischer first.
Second Kasparov but after that third place is so hard to place.
Not just because of modern players like Karpov, , Anand,Ivanchuk,
Tapolov,Spassky, etc....
But because one has to consider Capablanca, Lasker, Paul Keres, Reuben Fine, Richard Reti, Botvinnik, Alekhine, Pillsbury and Akiba Rubenstien, etc..
I would put Kramnik third WITH fourth being Alekhine.
MY LIST,
1.FISCHER
2.KASPAROV
3. KRAMNIK
4. ALEKHINE---------------SIX