play well enough until the 1990s, just in time to to contend with the rising Anand, Kramnik, Ivanchuk, Shirov, Kamsky, Gelfand, Topalov, Svidler, etc.. while GKK was still in his prime. That makes the 1990s IMO the strongest era in chess history ever.

Many kibitzers will probably find this strange but IMO the 1913 to 1925 period might arguably challenge the 1990s for the title of strongest era ever. It was a time that Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine were all playing superb and tremendously strong chess; Rubinstein was still playing strongly, and Nimzovitch, Bogolyubov, Reti, Tartakover, Spielmann, etc.. were rising. If the present top 10 generation happened to be born in the 1890s (assume they would know the openings current for that time and would have to use thethe Bryan home a second

time after Doyle Jr. contacted them regarding something that had been discovered

in the home. Young and Walker photographed cracks in the paneling behind P.B.’s

bed and numerous cracks in the headboard of the baby bed. Young photographed

“two hair fragments that appeared to be connected by a hair root that were stuck in

the paneling . . . in the crack that was by the light socket.” Walker swabbed the

crack in the wall and collected the hair as evidence, and Young later sent the hair

and the swab to the DPS lab in Houston. Upon reviewing the photographs taken

during the initial search, Young and Walker saw the same crack in the wall that

they photographed during the second search. On October 1, 2012, Walker

     