Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 06:22:54 01/12/01
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On January 11, 2001 at 15:56:06, Dann Corbit wrote: >On January 11, 2001 at 15:46:10, Drazen Marovic wrote: > >>Kasparov, Fischer, ,Volodya Kramnik,Capablanca they aren't GM strength! They >>are just the the luckiest people on earth is why they win. I think it was Dan >>Corbit who was telling me that the reason Kramnik won his match against >>Kasparov, is because kramnik was drunk, and kept falling asleep at the board. >>Someone would nudge kramnik to wake up, he continuously awoke with a startle >>accidently touched a piece was forced to move it, and eack time it just happened >>to be the right piece! > >I have not (to my knowledge) ever accused any GM's of playing drunk. As a curiousity, Alekhine actually played drunk! He lost a worldchampionship match against Euwe while doing so. José. > However, I >am sure that Capablanca is not of GM strength. He's dead. The others, I >believe, are. So you must be thinking of someone else.
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