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Subject: Re: There goes the surprise ... / SOUR GRAPES

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 12:47:02 12/01/01

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On December 01, 2001 at 07:47:24, James Stacey wrote:

>If you don't mind me saying, your post looks a bit like sour grapes. Why can't
>you just admit that Gambit Tiger is no stronger than Gandalf. Instead of trying
>to find excuses, why don't you give some credit to Gandalf. I am sure that many
>hours of time have gone into the programming and testing of Gandalf also.
>


How do you account for the fact that Tiger has come out significantly ahead of
Gandalf in about 95% of the dozens of tournaments run in the past 1/2 year?
There is a lot of evidence that Tiger is stronger.

Do you consider it IMPOSSIBLE that Christophe may be correct that Tiger was
unfairly crippled in this match?

When Bobby Fischer complained in the '60s that Soviet grandmasters were
discussing each others' ongoing games in detail (in Russian) at tournaments, he
was not taken seriously.  During the '80s & '90s, several Soviet & former Soviet
GMs, admitted that Fischer had been correct.  (If I recall correctly, Bronstein
and Korchnoi were among those.  And wasn't Keres the first?)

Not all claims of unfairness are sour grapes.  Some happen to be objectively
accurate.



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