James

slater said, dod, you're a chicken. You're a coward. I will

double the price fund and you can play for 250 thousand. I'm calling you out. Bobby got on the plank

o, but really en, if you. I mean, it was sort of like it just escalated and escalated and escalated. And then when the match was going on, it got such world wide attention. It was like the best money iceland ever spent. Like everybody knew where reevik was on the mat, and it was just amazing.

I became a chess expert. And

again, now i'm about 15, and i couldn't pierce 22 hundred. I just couldn't get through that. And

i remember i had travelled to lincoln, nebraska to play in the us. Open. How would you say the ratings were compared to the ratings that we have to day, in terms of strength? Would you say therehas been some rating inflation? 22 hundred was strength nowadays? Yes, there's been a great deal of rating inflation. But also keep in mind that the numbers are staggeringly higher to day than they were when i started. So if, ah, if the us f has a hundred thousand members to day, you know, maybe in 19 70 they had, let' us say 15, and then along comes bobby fisher, and then suddenly they have 80. But everybody's like a beginner. The good guys are really incredibly good. Sh's speaking of, like, the difference between chess players to day compared to 50 years ago. Like, how do you view chess as you see it to day, not just from the best players in the world, but from all levels that you see? I'll definitely come to that. I just wanted to say what happened to me was, i went to lincoln. I played these 12 rounds, these is all like a

really long turnone round a day.

And i had like a 25 50 performance. I

skipped 22 hundred. I became 23 hundred. Thatwas

like, what? How do you do that? I mean, i gained a hundred rating points in one then more, then maybe a hundred and 25. And i expected that i would come back down, because i was so overrated. But

smehow i kept just going. So

i started in 19 72. And 19 79 i got my like, third and final grandmaster norm so i was like seven years between the time i started becamea game. That's ey impossible. That was a more das short perio of chamia. But

it was a lot,

lot different than what you're making youre thinking. And i'll get to your question about the 50 what? What's the difference over the last 50 years?