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It doesnt matter to me who can beat who and do players of different times have qualities over the other. Was Alekhin better than Kasparov? Was Fangio better than Schumacher? Was Pele better than Zidane?

In chess what I look for is creativity. A skill to search and find the unexpected. Fischer was extremely creative. Some could say Paul Morphy was too. Morphy has created some of the best games there has ever been without aid from databases of previous games. He had to create history.

I tried to play against computer chess that emulated the style of famous players. That might sound ridiculous but it gives you good idea of their style. I always had problems when playing against Morphy or Fischer style. Other players styles were more predictable but not those.

I was in a game where ex-finnish champ (real expert!) played against 12 players. (Simultan?) After the game we asked from him who was the player he admired the most. He said it was Karpov. He meant that Karpovs style was so deep and complex that even he had trouble finding out what he meant with some moves. Kasparov on the other hand is very simple. He does nothing out of the ordinary, it is just very very good.

Fritz may be the best player today. Ordinary game running on ordinary PC. After you install it, the game checks the power of the computer and then informs you that its rating is about 3000. Kasparov, Kramnik etc are around 2800. That doesnt matter, cause chess is still face to face-fight. Mano y mano? That is why thinking times have been dropped to keep the game more "human" as there is no point in human vs. computer - games.

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