Anonymous
9/18/2025, 9:51:00 AM
No.539528061
>>539527414
I don’t hate him as an individual but I’ve come to hate him because of how overrated he is. Ben Finegold and others rate him as the greatest of all time and it drives me crazy. He comes from a completely different world. Trying to compare his dominance with Garry, Magnus, Fischer, Karpov, who are playing nothing but ridiculously strong fields and destroying them, is just insane. I’m sure Duke Karl knew a little more than how the pieces move but I really do not care that Morphy played an “all-time” classic against him. It’s no Kasparov’s Immortal. Be serious.
There’s some complusion that certain people have to overrate him that I don’t understand, but it’s not the only example of its kind. There are also certain types of people who overrate Fischer, usually without knowing much about chess at all, and their reasons are perfectly clear. I get it. They browse /pol/. But that same compulsion exists in some people for Morphy and I can’t figure out where it’s coming from. It’s not based in chess or logic, it’s something else.
I don’t hate him as an individual but I’ve come to hate him because of how overrated he is. Ben Finegold and others rate him as the greatest of all time and it drives me crazy. He comes from a completely different world. Trying to compare his dominance with Garry, Magnus, Fischer, Karpov, who are playing nothing but ridiculously strong fields and destroying them, is just insane. I’m sure Duke Karl knew a little more than how the pieces move but I really do not care that Morphy played an “all-time” classic against him. It’s no Kasparov’s Immortal. Be serious.
There’s some complusion that certain people have to overrate him that I don’t understand, but it’s not the only example of its kind. There are also certain types of people who overrate Fischer, usually without knowing much about chess at all, and their reasons are perfectly clear. I get it. They browse /pol/. But that same compulsion exists in some people for Morphy and I can’t figure out where it’s coming from. It’s not based in chess or logic, it’s something else.