the Chess time machine battle

[Joey Stewart]

Here is a great opportunity to debate the outcomes of famous player meetings, the rules are that they are both plucked from any time period and put straight into a match with no prep time (to hopefully neutralize the modern guys advantages).

I want to start with a good battle of attack: Mikhail tal vs Adolf Anderson. How do you suppose that would pan out?

[Dan O'Dowd]

That doesn't neutralise anything - Tal of any year has more knowledge and technique than Anderssen by definition - I think it'd be impossible to separate the two things out. So I imagine what you mean is to give in this case Anderssen, all the knowledge possessed by Tal, to equalise, then just have them play?