“Not only will I predict his triumph over Botvinnik, but I’ll go further and say that he’ll probably be the greatest Chess player that ever lived.”
A: Who said this?
B: Which player did he/she talk about?
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John Collins, on Fischer.
Tigran Petrosian ?
tal smyslov or petrosian……hmmm….I can’t imagine tal saying that….It’s a tough one. My guess is Smyslov.
Mike M
John Collins about Robert J. Fischer.
I found this interesting Botvinnik vs Capablanca game from 1938 http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1031957
This must have been said about Fischer. I don’t know who said it.
I doubt anyone gets this one without Googling it (I did that). Though I recognized the name, I would have never guessed it myself.
Probably Fischer. Fischer was to play a non-title match against Botvinnik that didn’t materialize.
That was my answer to part B.
It was said by unknown person Johnathan Collins.
It was said by Ronco genius Mr. Popiel and his magic oven: load it, and forget it!
John W. Collins said it, he said it in an interview, its about Bobby Fischer.
John W. Collins columnist for Chess Life and Chess Review and one of the country’s most highly respected chess annotators, has written: “Bobby is the finest chess player this Country ever produced. His memory for the moves, his brilliance in dreaming up combinations, and his fierce determination to win are uncanny. Not only will I predict his triumph over Botvinnik but I’ll go further and say that he’ll probably be the greatest chess player that ever lived.”
My Name: Alfred Acaling
It was about Mikhail Tal, in the first match against Botvinnik in 1960. i can´t remember who said it.
To Anon at 9:58 PM
Jack Collins was one of the greatest chess teachers in American history! From Wikapedia: Collins’s 1975 book My Seven Chess Prodigies included memoirs of a handful of his students who became some of America’s greatest chess players, including: former world champion Bobby Fischer, grandmaster William Lombardy, New York Times chess columnist Robert Byrne and International Master Raymond Weinstein.
This is the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Collins
I had all 3 books listed in the article, and used MCO for years.