Capablanca vs Kasparov

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Relentless95
rich wrote:
mephistoWaltzz wrote:

Except I value Mikhail Tal as the best attacking player that ever played. And David Bronstein who came before him.


That's what I was thinking.


Henry Bird also had some impressive attacking games that ended because of a pin or double-check.

Natalia_Pogonina
Relentless95 wrote:

Everyone falls, didn't Kasparov? Capablanca lost to alekhine, who is in most top five rankings, while Kasparov lost it to Kramnik, who is almost never mentioned in the top ten.


Rankings of whom? Most admired players? Laughing On the rankings of strongest players ever Vladimir would easily make it to the top-10.

HellFlame

for a long time i was confused.who really is the best chess player of all time?fischer,capa,or kaspy?then i started going through their every games.(not just famous games,eatch and every games)it is clear fischer and kaspy played tons of rubbish games but i couldnt find a single bad game of capa.now i believe capa is just far away better from any chess player ever came.dont underestimate capa because he plays simple.he was able to see things real deep and based on his amazing judgement he saw picking up a specific simple line will give him a plus.just analyse  his games with a computer.you will be amazed.the moves he played still considerd as a reguler book move not a backdated move unlike kaspy or fischer.

HellFlame

qwestoreyou can simply check the wiki page to know about capa.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capablanca to download all the games of capa you need to go here.if you dont have a pgn reader just get one of them from chess.com resources download..you will see many pgn readers.enjoy through these amazing games http://chess4real.com/jose-raul-capablanca-y-graupera-1203-chess-games-to-download/

dervich

I consider Capablanca the greater natural chess talent of all times and Kasparov the greater pratical player (performance) of all times.

It is not possible to imagine the quality of Capa play if he had lived in 1995, as it´s not possible to wonder how Kasparov would play, if he had lived in 1920.

We can only picture an imaginary game between Capablanca of 1920 and Kasparov of 1995 and, in a match like that of, let´s say, 12 games, i´m afraid Capa would not stand a chance, he would loose some 10-2 in points, 8 wins for Kasparov and 4 draws...

fabelhaft
Natalia_Pogonina wrote:
Relentless95 wrote:

Everyone falls, didn't Kasparov? Capablanca lost to alekhine, who is in most top five rankings, while Kasparov lost it to Kramnik, who is almost never mentioned in the top ten.


Rankings of whom? Most admired players? On the rankings of strongest players ever Vladimir would easily make it to the top-10.

Since Alekhine is mentioned as top five I'd guess the top 10 referred to isn't of objectively strongest players (that ought to be current top seven plus Kasparov, Karpov and Fischer) but greatest players from a historical perspective, and such a top 10 wouldn't include Kramnik as far as I am concerned. I wouldn't rank his life achievements ahead of those of Kasparov, Lasker, Karpov, Fischer, Steinitz, Capablanca, Alekhine, Botvinnik, Smyslov or Anand. Then there's always for example Petrosian, Tal and Morphy, so Kramnik would end up around 15th on my list.