Why can't current chess masters make powerful over the board decisions?

Playing an Original Position accurately.



If we could ressurect Tal he'd probably destroy them all.



I recently did some reading and came across this thing about Anand, world champion, in a current game against Aronian. Apparently a new position had been arrived at from the get go, and Anand missed simple moves and lost in a horrible fashion. He simply didn't study for that position and when it came time to decide over the board he crumbled. He even stated himself. "I played like a 2100.~" or something to that effect. Perhaps they are relying on the computer analysis too much, and when a wild combination and difficult positions arise that a computer didn't recommend for either side they collapse. --What do you think about this?Why can't current chess masters make powerful over the board decisions?
They can and do, you're bias and inexpeianced.



You look at a game that got attention because it was out of the ordinary meaning this isn't how they usually play. Also Anand himself said he played like sh*t. Ok great. Now go look up a brilliancy or a tourney where their performance rating is 2900 and ask yourself to reconcile the two. Perhaps you haven't had a tourney yet where you've made some blunders -- keep going to tourneys, it happens to everyone.



What I think about this? Either:

You don't have established rating so you don't know what it's like to have a lemon of a game and loose to someone rated hundreds of points lower than yourself or



I think you need to play some masters to have some respect. :)



Oh, and you study Karpov or Tal? How many Karpov/Tal games do you think Anand has memorized and could lecture you on for hours? These people are professionals. Yes, also they're humans and make mistakes. Keep playing chess and you'll find you're no different.Why can't current chess masters make powerful over the board decisions?
I disagree. The current elite are quite capable of playing original positions accurately. Take some of their games and plug them into a computer for analysis of "simple" mistakes, and then do the same with players of the past, and you will see that the elite are the elite for a reason. They may have an off day here or there, but not very often.



I do agree in spirit that many elite players of the past are given too little respect: that apart from advancements in theory and computer analysis, they played the game as powerfully as the current elite.