Author: Andre Godat
Date: 15:02:34 07/20/01
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On July 20, 2001 at 17:37:32, Vine Smith wrote: >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 I am not especially impressed by a program's victory over a GM who's roughly thirty years past his prime, but I'm sure Chess Tiger is destined for greater achievements. More startling is the possibility that whoever writes this stuff for Chessbase doesn't know that Miguel Najdorf was the greatest Argentinian citizen ever to play the game. Anyone who isn't amazed and delighted by Najdorf's blindfold simuls ought to go back to checkers. A. G.
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