Author: Steve
Date: 17:07:41 03/18/99
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On March 18, 1999 at 10:07:01, Charles Unruh wrote: >I have played 155 tournament games in my career and i have never lost or drawn a >single game against any person that was 150 rating points below me. In a mere 6 >game match yermo could be expected to take H7 out 6 0. My rating is currently >in the 1900s. I'm sure there are many players with similar records. This leads >me to believe that there is some error when one predicts that in a 6 game match >that a 2500 player should score 2/6 against a 2630 player. I certainly hope H7 >is much stronger than 2500, otherwise this will just increase speculation about >the progs strength. This because if it loses all of the games we can only judge >it's strength by the quality of play not by how many games it lost. A 2500 >player would be a much better purely investigative experiment. Alas we must >take what we can get. This match should be more fun from a spectators point of >view, but from an investigative point of view, there may not be much knowledge >gleaned, unles H7 is considerably stronger than 2500. Everyone primarily has >been wanting to demonstrate that comps are at least 2500 first. Hmm. Is the primary purpose of this post to predict the result of the Yermolinsky-H7 match or to let us all know what a devastatingly consistent player you are?
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