George Duke wrote on Mon, Nov 28, 2011 04:29 PM UTC:
Among Americans who else,
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=7707, should be placed the
last 100 years with Fischer, Reshevsky and Nakamura?
Interesting connection is that Reshevsky was born the year the great chess puzzlist Sam Loyd died. As of the 1964 article Chessbase notes here, Fischer himself at 21 names Morphy, Steinitz, Reshevsky, and Capablanca all norteamericanos in the top all-time ten. In the sixties there was slow acknowledgement of Russian dominance the premier mind-sport; even Bobby's mother Regina married and studied in Moscow. Probably now only Capablanca and Morphy would rate that way top-ten, considering also their time -- to make room for the Karpov and the Kasparov at very top.
