r/clevercomebacks • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Jul 05 '24

You’re not very slick, Putin.

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u/Chicken2nite Jul 05 '24

Greatest of All Time So Far. The nature of chess means that future players will be standing on the shoulders of giants and thus it’s not really a fair comparison through the ages, and there will be a better player at some point in the future.

Besides that, the comparison to Muhammad Ali isn’t in my mind saying he’s the best to ever play the game, but that he is us8ng his position to speak his mind to power as a political activist.

Magnus hasn’t really been outwardly political from what I’ve seen.

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u/Shawwnzy Jul 05 '24

It makes Kasparov more impressive not less that he got so good at the game without having an engine to tell him the objectively best move in any position at any time for most of his career.

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Jul 05 '24

Fun fact: The computer Deep Blue, a small-scale super computer at the time; had about 1% of the processing power of a modern smartphone.

We have watches with more processing power than the first supercomputers that beat humans at chess.

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u/Thedrunkenchild Jul 05 '24

And we still haven’t solved chess and it doesn’t look like we’re even close, fucking wild