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Subject: Re: Take claims with a grain of salt

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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