Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:28:52 07/20/01
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On July 20, 2001 at 18:02:34, Andre Godat wrote: >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. If Panno were 100 years old it will still be impressive. At least I'm pretty sure he'd smoke me in a game of chess when he's 100 (if he is still able). Is anybody really surprised that a bit of exaggeration is used in ad copy? Read _any_ bit of ad copy. I've never seen a software box glowing in humility: "We are quite sure that Shredder is much stronger than this program, and if we play against a GM, we are always careful to ensure that the matches include bouts of quick time control so our noses won't be too bloodied afterwards. Anyway, we do have jazzy looking 3-D chessmen and we hope you'll enjoy our product."
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