Bobby Fischer
The capricious Bobby Fischer is another player whose exclusion from a legendary players list makes it deficient.
Title holder between 1972 to 1975, the American player played a significant role in creating a gigantic spark for chess in the United States.
Breaking records was somewhat of a hobby for Fischer. At only 15 years of age, he became a Grandmaster while also being the youngest to enter a World Championship. And it was only until 1971, that Fischer turned into the No. 1 appraised player.
For all his achievements, Fischer had irritability poor social abilities, and thus he was often perceived as being unfriendly and arrogant. However, none of these shortcomings influenced on his chess playing ability.
Like the chess great, Gary Kasparov, Fischer also had a hostile association with the World Chess Federation. He took a stand in opposition to the playing conditions and the cash associated with the titles. These disagreements grew so much that in 1975, Fischer declined to protect his title, thus passing it on, uncontested to Anatoly Karpov.
The Fischerandom
Another disagreement that Fischer had with the existing system was opening frameworks that included conferring opening moves to memory. According to Fischer, this was not fair as more talented players lost to individuals based only on their lack of memory skills.
To counter this problem and make chess a fair game, Fischer made a contrasting option to this framework. Known as Fischerandom or Chess960, the framework had 960 beginning positions. This framework had a positive affect, as the capacity of players who utilised repetition and got the hang of opening moves decreased drastically.
Bobby Fischer was a true chess legend, so much so that, some grandmasters have also contrasted his style to that of a computer, mainly because of the absence of detectable shortcomings.
Even to Gary Kasparov, Fischer was an amazing and progressive figure ever to play the sport on a professional level.
Judit Polgár
The only female chess player to find her place in this legendary list is none other than Judit Polgar. Considered by many as the best female player of all time, Judit broke the stereotype that women are not smart enough to play chess.
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She broke Booby Fisher’s record of accomplishing the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 also became the youngest chess player to break into the Top 100 chess rankings.
1989 to 2015 was the golden period for Judit Polgar as she remained the number one female chess player during this entire period. Her accomplishments include defeating the world champions of her time including the likes of Gary Kasparov.
Judit Polgar Vs Gary Kasparov
To this day, her association with Kasparov remains the highlight of her career. She lost a dubious diversion to him in 1994, where in the outcome of the match, video confirmed that Kasparov had in fact made an unjustifiable move. After this match both had a fallout for a period of three years.
However, in 2002 she finally crushed the chess legend and Kasparov was all praise of his opponent and even gave her due regard by praising her ‘relentless aggression’
Viswanathan Anand
Popularly known as ‘Vishy’, the Indian chess Grandmaster became only the 4th player in history to pass the 2800 rating mark in the chess rankings list.
The World Champion can truly be considered as the face of Asian chess in the entire world. Vishy remained at the number one position for a total of 21 months and during this period he won three Advanced Chess rivalries successively.
Anand is considered as being the principle player to have won the world chess title in four associations: match, knockout, tournament and rapid time controls. The Indian Grandmaster places himself among the best chess players including the likes of Gary Kasparov and Bobby Fischer.
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