i mean its easy to cherry pick the points that are ofc dubious on my part.. but thats all you guys are doing , and not addressing any of the others
kasparovs peak rating - 35 y/o
magnus peak rating - 28 y/o
fischers peak rating - 28 y/o
karpov's peak rating - 43 y/o m, he was 23 when he challenged fischer
there's clearly a correlation here of players reaching their peak later , just cause so much more was found about the game ,and even at later ages , those small things , could increase their rating
think assuming that someone in their 20s has reached their peak is just plain wrong
look at Hikaru, pretty much quit chess ... plays almost solely blitz online , and equalled his best result in the candidats , getting 2nd , at 28 and 36.. theres other factors that you're not including , age is a number nowadays , fischer would've been much older at 28 compared to someone nowdays being 28
theres only magnus carlsen and fischer that i can think of that retired at 30, and magnus didnt even fully retired as he can still crush everyone .. so dont know what you on about there
fischer quit before he even reached his peak ... he was scared .. if he'd lost to karpov on tha WC, which was a serious possibility , this thread wouldn't exist ..
maybe you reach your peak at their late 20s/ early 30s nowadays , but that wasn't the case pre solvers time, as people would come out with new ideas all the time , but in their 20s?? just no
and then there's players who choke , Caruana , Karpov .. and player who don't , Kasparov , Carlsen .. thats way more important than age. and then there's those who quit cause they know they can choke
sample size too small, Paul Morphy before Fischer for me .
no one asked , but my top 5 is
Kasparov
Carlsen
Karpov
Fischer /
Morphy
can only imagine how far Kasparov could go with the tools we have today , man saw 20 moves ahead tactical lines that not even stockfish can see nowadays, won the WC vs Anand with a 20 move prep game where the entire Anand's team missed 1 move on move 18 or smtg.. anand had spent 1h , while kasparov spent 10m cause he wasnt even at the board, and had a completely winning position just from prepping
man said something was fishy about his 2nd game with the IBM team 'Deep Blue' then ofc he went nuts and said that Karpov was involved etc.. only 20 years later the IBM team admitted to be lucky enough to have introduced that specific Karo-can variation in the morning before the game , otherwise they would've def lost
Last edited by MartimC; 05-15-2024 at 02:10 PM.