Agreed! So nice to see the respect a chess game deserves. This man is the best. No dumb jokes, no silly photos of sumo wrestlers or snow plows and no screaming. God bless this man and his great work!
"I would settle for 19th if Fischer played 20th." -Reshevsky The rivalry between Fischer and Reshevsky was real. But Fischer held Reshevsky in high regards. *Both* times Bobby made a top 10 chess players list, he cited Reshevsky as one of them. Only 5 other players were on both of Fischer's lists, the others being Capablanca, Morphy, Spassky, Steinitz and Tal
Alekhine? Now there’s a name from the past. Fierce, single-minded chess obsessive playing without pity. One wonders how Fischer v Alekhine would’ve panned out.
