The game that ended Fischer’s 20-game win streak (2nd closest streak is Fischer himself with 11 and then Caruana with 7). Petrosian is one of the few ultra grandmasters with whom I can usually actually intuit his next move, at least in pivotal positions.
So is a serious candidate for championship challenger some day. Needless to say, so are many others on that list, Nakamura among them. Be cool if Nakamura trained for the next Candidates.
Look, no one is more successful at making a fool out of you than you yourself. So, of course I’m going to encourage you.
My goal is to humiliate the Kids to the point that they choose to leave ILP.
That will never happen of course – you and your ilk now own the place – but the thing about waiting for godot is that none of that actually matters.
It’s all essentially interchangeable with everything else. And one day when you are no longer “young and beautiful” yourself, you’ll think, “so that’s what he meant by it”?
You know, if you don’t cross the street and get hit by a bus today.