Author: Frederic Friedel
Date: 01:20:55 05/12/00
Posted by James Robertson on May 11, 2000 at 19:50:03: > Kramnik refuted this argument in an artical shortly after the FIDE WC. He took > the win percentages of the top "inflated" players against all lower rated > players in the last 5 or so years and the statistics showed the higher rated > players winning very near the percentage expected against the lower rated > players. It was a memorable contribution in Schach 10/1999 pp18-19. Everyone was discussing how a small group of about nine top players build a club and always play amongst themselves, keeping their ratings artificially high and not letting other equally strong players improve their ratings. The impression was this was a kind of cartel that prevented a lot of players from receiving their due. Vladimir's contribution was simple: let's just take a look at the numbers. He lists the results of the nine "club members" from 1995 until the time of writing against the "suppressed elite" -- GMs between 2550 and 2670. 1. Kasparov +41 -04 =33 2. Anand +47 -06 =40 3. Kramnik +59 -07 =70 4. Shirov +79 -35 =108 5. Adams +71 -31 =120 6. Ivanchuk +47 -11 =74 7. Karpov +30 -07 =58 8. Gelfand +38 -11 =102 9. Topalov +65 -25 =71 Total +447 -137 =676 "I think these figures require no further commentary", Vladimir wrote.
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