Be afraid. Be very afraid.
What dates??
August 14-19, 2017.
He’ll get slaughtered.
“shirley, you jest!”
He’s doing as well as can be expected. Mostly draws.
Don’t call me Shirley.
Why is it each is the last to find
That his legs are gone, that his eyes are bad?
That the quicker reflexes have left his mind?
That he hasn’t the stuff that he one day had?
Lost youth mocks and he doesn’t see
The ghost of the fellow who used to be.
Caught by a stride that he used to beat.
Nailed by a punch that he used to block.
Trailing the flurry of flying feet,
But dreaming still of the peaks that mock.
Each is the last to learn from fate
That his story is finished, and out of date.
- Grantland Rice, “To Any Athlete”
I wouldn’t say that Kasparov is finished just yet. I’m sure he could beat any of us easily.
Obviously, but in his prime he was the best in the world, maybe the best ever. Those days are gone.