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Given the soviet chess machine stacked the deck against him his whole life the chances are on a level playing field he'd have been a good world champion. They
by noir_lord 10y ago
Given the soviet chess machine stacked the deck against him his whole life the chances are on a level playing field he'd have been a good world champion.
They tried it with Fisher but his genius was such that he smashed through the barricades and won anyway with as close to a perfect performance as a human has ever achieved.
- Lordarminius 10y agoGenius sure; but I think Fischer just could not be needled by Soviet/KGB sheenanigans - there was just no personal connection; and being American the possibility of assassination was out of the question. Korchnoi from the time of his defection onwards suffered from this fear.