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Subject: Re: Look at these finnish GMs (specially Bob) :-)

Author: Mark Young

Date: 12:59:43 06/18/01

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On June 18, 2001 at 15:11:14, Uri Blass wrote:

>On June 18, 2001 at 14:31:53, Mark Young wrote:
>
>>On June 18, 2001 at 14:15:05, Côme wrote:
>>
>>>On June 18, 2001 at 13:41:25, Mark Young wrote:
>>>
>>>>On June 18, 2001 at 12:42:01, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On June 18, 2001 at 08:21:54, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Here in Finland we have 3 GMs. Here's from their ratings from fide:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>500011  Yrjola, Jouni                   g 2419 2 24.10.1959
>>>>>>500020  Westerinen, Heikki M.J.         g 2412 10 27.4.1944
>>>>>>500038  Rantanen, Yrjo A.               g 2327 0  23.4.1950
>>>>>>
>>>>>>You can give computer a knight handicap to get interesting match...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jouni
>>>>
>>>>Quoted from Bob's post:
>>>>
>>>>"So picking a bunch of GMs with ratings of 2400 and then saying "hey, computers
>>>>are this good, so..." doesn't make much sense.  Because at _some_ point in time,
>>>>those 2400 GM players were 2600+ GM players, otherwise they would not have
>>>>gotten the title..."
>>>>
>>>>You are Dead Wrong again Bob, we will take the 3 Grandmasters from the previous
>>>>post for example. Not one of these Grandmasters was ever close to 2600 elo and
>>>>in fact only one of these grandmasters was able to best 2500+ elo. As usual in
>>>>this argument your theory falls apart in the light of FACTS.
>>>
>>>Hello !!
>>>You forgot one important thing : They all had +2500 in intermediate elo !
>>>the elo you give is the best rating published.
>>>They all made Gm norms (TPR +2600) and had +2500 betwenn 2 fide list.
>>>best regards
>>>Alexandre Come
>>
>>You are making my point, it is much easier to make TPR's then hold a elo of
>>2500+ for computers to be considered GM strength. If a computer can hold a 2500+
>>elo it is performing better then alot of grandmssters, and should be considered
>>Grandmaster strength.
>
>The question is what is the meaning of grandmaster strength
>If being better than a lot of grandmasters mean GM strength than IM's who can
>hold elo of 2500+ should be considered also as GM strength.

I will answer the above from what I know, Take IM Mike Brooks from Missouri USA,
Many here consider IM Mike Brooks at the level of Grandmaster, because 1. He has
shown he can play and best many Grandmasters. 2 He has been near or above 2500+.
The problem IM Mike Brooks has is he lives in Missouri, and Lack of Money to
travel to earn the norms.

Brooks, Michael A
Rating 2511
Title IM
Best elo 2515 1999 at age 37

BTW It is easier to achieve TPR's because that is only over a short period of
games.

I have produced TRP's in tournaments over 2000 USCF rating, but that does not
make me a 2000 uscf rated player or have a rating of over 2000 uscf rating.

IM Brooks, as I live in Missouri the chess desert capitol of the world.:)



>
>I think that Bob do not mean to this by the words GM strength.
>
>I think that he means the strength that you need to become a GM.
>You can have lower strength later without losing the GM title.
>
>Uri



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