Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:16:54 03/23/02
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On March 23, 2002 at 18:13:55, Uri Blass wrote: >On March 23, 2002 at 17:04:04, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote: > >>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. > >This only proves that he knew to play chess well at that time and that gulko's >best achievements in the past were better than Van wely's. > >It does not say that elo cannot be compared. >The elo is an estimate for the ability of the player today and is not based on >the past. > >Uri Of course the estimate is based on the past results and I mean to say that the ability of the player today has nothing to do with an achievemnet that happened many years ago. Uri
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