Author: O. Veli
Date: 12:45:50 09/19/99
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On September 19, 1999 at 11:27:11, Laurence Chen wrote: >I don't agree with your conclusion because even in human tournament games, an IM >must defeat a GM in order to gain a GM norm, even if he draws all his games >against all GM in a tournament and beats all the IM's in the field, he cannot >gain a GM norm unless he beats a GM. No, you need to score a certain number of points in a tournament relevant to its category, and it does not matter how you attain those points. You can draw with all the GM's and beat the IM's, or lose to IM's and beat the GM's. By the way a TPR of 2553 is not a GM norm, it is an IM norm (and that has to be based on at least 9 games, not 4). A GM norm is a performance level of 2600 or more, an IM norm is 2500-99. The fact that minimum rating level of 2500 for a GM title does not mean than anybody or anything that shows a performance level of 2500 is a GM. Rebel therefore is a player who has failed to get an IM norm (assuming that its TPR of 2480 based on 10 games played by it so far is true) and is a new player on the list with a rating of 2480. I am sure this figure is higher if we include Rebel's results at the Aegon tournament. I would like to congratulate Mr. Schroeder for his courage to pit his program against grandmasters and am sure that it is not long before Rebel achieves a GM norm.
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