Kasparov had a good opinion, it was well put.
Fischer's Elo Rating Today?
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Oct 4, 2020
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Hikaru Nakamura said in an interview that top players nowadays would get the better of Fischer.
lol
People underestimate the fact of how obsessed Fischer was with chess. 1 chess game on a billboard or some tv screen. Even a few secs in a movie. Would grasp him forcefully.
Sure, Kasparov has good point. Fisher is the best of all times!
Elo himself said that, to compare a historical figure to a contemporary player, you would have to assume that the old player had access to modern theory and training methods.
The rating system is based on the probability of beating one’s opponents. So, fischer’s 125-point rating edge over Spassky makes him the most dominant player of all time. Second would be Carlsen.
The question of inflation is interesting. From 1969 to 1980, Bill Martz estimated that inflation was about 100 points. In 1970, when FIDE adopted the Elo system, Elo said that the USCF and FIDE systems were in synch. However, that was when Elo stepped back from the USCF rating committee and worked only with FIDE. By 1980, USCF ratings were about 100 points higher than FIDE ratings.
FIDE ratings then started to inflate, starting in 1974 when ratings became one of the criteria for FIDE titles. They really went up when Elo stepped down in 1986 when his wife became ill.
USCF ratings had a big boost in inflation when they introduced the rating floors in the early 1990s.
iMHO, the 2400 players of the 1960s are about the equivalent of the 2600 players of today.
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mikewier wrote:
Elo himself said that, to compare a historical figure to a contemporary player, you would have to assume that the old player had access to modern theory and training methods.
The rating system is based on the probability of beating one’s opponents. So, fischer’s 125-point rating edge over Spassky makes him the most dominant player of all time. Second would be Carlsen.
The question of inflation is interesting. From 1969 to 1980, Bill Martz estimated that inflation was about 100 points. In 1970, when FIDE adopted the Elo system, Elo said that the USCF and FIDE systems were in synch. However, that was when Elo stepped back from the USCF rating committee and worked only with FIDE. By 1980, USCF ratings were about 100 points higher than FIDE ratings.
FIDE ratings then started to inflate, starting in 1974 when ratings became one of the criteria for FIDE titles. They really went up when Elo stepped down in 1986 when his wife became ill.
USCF ratings had a big boost in inflation when they introduced the rating floors in the early 1990s.
iMHO, the 2400 players of the 1960s are about the equivalent of the 2600 players of today.
The most dominant player of all time is arguably Paul Morphy, not Bobby Fischer.
Fischer was and still is
1 the youngest to become international master,
2 Fischer destroyed everyone on his way- completely and like a lightning,
and the most important-
3 Fischer was and will be forever something that no other chess-master is- a LEGEND!
No-one can give us such an inspiration and no-one else merits our greatest admiration.
Not only as a chess-player, but also as a character and a man of courage.
Fischer, apart from being a chess-genius, was also a sincere and honest to the max to his own nature and principles. He did not bow to conformism and he was not scared of nothing.
Fischer was an intrepid servant of Liberty and Freedom and he will be an Inspiration for every freedom-loving person forever!
Asking about whether or not a player was born in year X or had access to modern computers are not questions that can be given definitive answers as you could say that about any player. How do you know that if Henry Edward Bird was born in modern times he would become world champion, or William Winter or Mir Sultan Khan?