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WHO'S THE GREATEST? Who's "The Greatest Chess Player Ever"? Would Alekhine, Morphy, Capablanca et al give today's best a run for their money if they were alive? Who cares?! I'm
fed up with these endless and pointless arguments (and if you've spent much time
on the chess newsgroups, you probably are too) So, here at Chess Beast Magazin we've decided to settle this argument once and for all, using the tried and tested method of pure chance. We
have assembled a 32-strong list, consisting of the players most hailed as the
best ever, plus a pack of the strongest chasers, and a few celebrity guests to
spice it up a bit. Using
World Cup 2002*, we aim to pit GM against GM, weeding out the weak, until we are
finally left with the "One True Champion". Round 1: Group Stage Each player on our list will be assigned a team in the World Cup. If his team gets eliminated in the first round, he's out. Simple as that. No arguments. Ok, it's not perfect, but it's better than the way FIDE is getting its world champions these days at least. To add some kind of realism there will be a seeding arrangement. The top 8 players ever (according to this list - don't argue! It's just a bit of fun, ok?) will be matched up with the 8 seeded teams in WC2002. The next 8 players will be matched with the 8 second seeded teams, and so on. Knockout Stages After the group stages, every player still remaining will have their team re-drawn at random. This is to give all the qualifiers an equal chance of landing the eventual winners. [If you can think of a better way, email me.] Click on the group lists below to see the controversial group stage draw (yes, it was done properly, by my mate Dave on a boring day at work, you suspiscious Kasparov fans!) Group
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if you don't know what this is then you are probably American, and you can call
it 'soccer' (even though it's actually called 'football' - no, it came before
that other thing you call football, the one where the players are all called Brad
and they run around dressed like gay spacemen)
Why not try our idiot-proof move digestives! Every possible move combination is lovingly and discretely hand-stamped onto the surface of it's own unique biscuit. Only a complete moron or a sloppy dunker could fail! Also available on giant cookies in descriptive notation.
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So,
you tried getting your friends to pass you good moves using the 'yoghurt code'
(see 