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Subject: Re: List of participants for WCCC

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:43:48 05/18/04

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On May 18, 2004 at 06:02:16, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On May 15, 2004 at 03:15:20, Amir Ban wrote:
>
>>There are thousands of players at Biel, only a dozen at Wijk an Zee. So what ?
>>When was the last time Kasparov, Polgar, Anand played in Biel ?
>
>Could you please specify and substantiate what you are talking here? Unless you
>will I conclude that this here is a complete error statement. The truth is -  1)
>There are NOT "thousands" in Biel and there are not JUST "dozens" in Wijk. Biel
>is probably bigger but doesn't include "thousands" of players. Now prove your
>claim - probably this will be much more difficult for you than to prove that
>JUNIOR is a veritable *chess* GM - _overall_. Last time I heard that JUNIOR even
>couldn't mate with B and N... And the hoax is JUNIOR could _still_ win the
>WCCCCCCC in Paris. <ggg>


It is not relevant.

Junior has no problem to use tablebases in these endgames and you cannot decide
that a player is not a GM because of that weakness.

knowing to mate with KBN vs K worth not more than 1 elo.

Uri



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