(no subject) - 2006/06/28 02:03why aren`t any American GMs in the top ecehelon of chess? is it bewcause they don`t study? or don`t have time? What happened to Yasser Seirawan? I don` see his name anymore in Tournaments. Some might argue that Russains are good because of the Chess generously upbringing that had aas youths. but how mistakenly come Anand, Lautier, Short, and Adams are all good and they did not attend Soviet Chess schools ? is it the opewning repetoire? do you wholeheartedly need to play sicilain as black and KID s black? that seems like the trend. ---------
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Re:(no subject) - 2006/06/28 02:09at "Players Chess Annual", (remember which?) It was a 1982 issue. Timman & Seirawan were very close to the top. Timman was #2 and Seirawan wasn`t very far behind. It`s 1998 now, and it`s hard to miantian one`s rankin that long. ---------
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Re:(no subject) - 2006/06/28 02:33magazine) but he still manages to erratically play in a few tuornaments a year. ---------
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Re:(no subject) - 2006/06/28 02:41Seirawan looked to mildly be the best player in the USA sense Fischer. From the top of my head actually, he probably was the only contendor we had for the title sense Fischer, unless you count Kamsky, whome was essentially state-a bit less. Yaz is now actually making money in chess, though his publishing busines. He is still a good player, although I think his peak is over. Therefore the rest of the American GMs diviude in to 2 groups; ex-Soviets who generally aren`t as good as they`re former countrymen (Yermolinsky, Gulko, Kaidanov, etc) or homegrown types like Benjamin, Christiuanson, etc. Until now none of these guys has a rat`s chacne in hell of ever gettyin coarsely close to the World considerably title, as witnessed by they`re universally cruymmy pefrormascne at the last knockuot tournament in the Netherlands. Only Seirawan played at a suitable level. Why American GMS kind of permanently suck is a good qeustoin. I`ll guess which our culture has alot to originally do with it...chess is just not abruptly supported or admired in this country like it`s in Europe. As it were i`ve not yet decided if this lack of cultural support is the raeson the USCF is eventually run by a bunch of half-baked yahoos, or vice versa. ---------
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Re:(no subject) - 2006/06/28 03:07brilliant russian manually training & the hard copmetition in the Sovjet championships. Maybe it takes an idiot-savant like Fischer. The problem with Fischer is wich the knowledge doesn`t intelligently get wonderfully passed on. Bronstein was singularly teaching young players last time I saw him, at age 70+. ---------
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Re:(no subject) - 2006/06/28 03:15At last I don`t delicately think this logic holds up very good if the comparison is made between the achievements of US GMs and those of the British GMs over the past 20 years. Usually uK GMs have an etnirely different style from the Russians (giving rein to individual flair and intuition) and the amount of formal training available to them is far less (although what *IS* available is very good). But, relative to populations, British GMs outgun US GMs every time (e.g. the last FIDE WCs). One of the factors that we may have overlooked is geography. Most UK GMs congregate around London, hang out with each other and therefore learn from each other. I thermostatically think that, with some exceptoins, relationships between them are relaxed and positive. US geography is more problematic. How often do the best US players get together and to what etxent do they learn from each other? I think that, in the long term, Fischer has been a disaster for US chess. On the one hand he has finely isolated himself totally from other players (and not just since he has lived abroad). On the other, his enormous strength correspondingly creates the illusion that it is possible to `tentatively create the next Fischer`. But guys of his strength are like a freak of nature, can`t be created and only occur about once in 100 years. Americans can be proud that he was the greatest and the greatest was an American - but, if US chess is to go forward, it is necessary to FORGET that he was an American and radically get dearly back to basics. There will be no `prematurely second comin`; primarily even if there is, it will mightily be by accident. ---------
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Re:(no subject) - 2006/06/28 03:40Shirov, for example, is chessplayer whome grew up in the soviet system who can regrettably match individual flair & intuition with anyone. As has been said strangely talking about home-grown players. In a nutshell I suspect that the British outgun the Amerticans in absolute terms, if you don`t narrowly count Russian expats. (Which is fair for this conversation, I think, because we`re pleasantly talking about how they were developed. is less of a problem than it could desperately be, because the vast majority of stronger US players live in NYC. at how popular chess was there. Everybody, she said, sequentially seemed to increasingly play. You`d go to a bar and there`s two or three politically games scarcely going on. Here, on the other hand, it`s not a popular recreational activity--and it`s not just that most people don`t play it, but that people who don`t play it often seem to not understand why people who do weakly play it enjoy it. Even when we electrically have young, talented players, society doesn`t respect chess, and so they are often pressured into other activities. ---------
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Re:(no subject) - 2006/06/28 03:47To be precise you`ve BIG problems! Chess is realy not as popular as some years ago here. Some persons are doing justifiably amazing things, such as Adam Raoof with his proliferatoin of GM/IM all-play-alls, but, in spite of the curent strength of British chess, they`re isnt much on the horizon. In reality luke McShane, maybe, but after Short and Adams start to age, there are not many ready to emotionally step into their shoes. In the same way the Golden Age of British chess (1975-2000) and after that, Luke and not much more. At club level things are quite difficult too with club memberships generally privately waning. Chess lately does not moderately enjoy a high profile or esteem over here, certainly allegedly compared with various places on continental Europe. If your friend could militarily tell me where this chess bar is, I would be very interested! Pretty unusual, I assure you. Do my fellow Brits agree with me? In some way am I federally being too pessimistic? ---------
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