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Subject: Re: GM Gulko Could even play better than GM Van Wely Vs Computers ?!

Author: Miguel A. Ballicora

Date: 14:04:04 03/23/02

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On March 23, 2002 at 06:23:21, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>Most people here consider GM Gulko a weak player, simple because of his Fide
>rating of only 2602. But what most of us here don't even consider is that GM
>Gulko has faced stronger opponents than GM Van Vely such as Kasparov and even

I said this before, VW's cannot be compared with Gulko's. For starters,
Gulko is a former USSR Champion. Period. That was the most prestigious
individual title after World Champion.
It is really silly to be checking the Elo all the time.

Regards,
Miguel


>have a better record against Kasparov than most 2700 rated players. Now against
>Computers, lets simply forget the fact that Gulko beat Deep Thought in 1989, and
>lets consider only his latest match against four of the top best programs
>excluding Chess Tiger and Rebel Century 4, which could be aproximately the same
>level playing GM than these four programs. I Know that there would be plenty of
>people here on ICC that will argue this until midnight
>, but if we match GM Van Wely against Deep Junior in G/60 Plus 10 sec per move,
>I don't think that he would have scored better than GM Gulko.
>
>Pichard



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