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Subject: Re: Take claims with a grain of salt

Author: Vine Smith

Date: 14:37:32 07/20/01

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On July 20, 2001 at 11:45:25, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>In the chessbase web site it says:
>
>"Tiger beats chess legend
>GM Oscar Panno, 66, is a legend of Argentinean chess. GM. the 1953 junior world
>champion soon rose to one of the top ten players in the world, something none
>                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>of his countrymen ever achieved. Today Panno was beaten by Chess Tiger in the
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>IV República Argentina International. "
>
>
>Have they ever heard of Miguel Najdorf?
>
>
>Regards,
>Miguel

Add to that the fact that Tiger can hardly be considered one of Panno's
"countrymen", so why make this implied comparison at all? Panno has lost to many
non-Argentines before, even in his younger days.

Regards,
Vine Smith



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