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Subject: Re: Junior 7 has 2979 performance-Congrats (nt)

Author: Chris Carson

Date: 12:39:48 05/18/02

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On May 18, 2002 at 14:17:31, Peter Hegger wrote:

>Hi,
>With a 3.5-.5 score against a 2641 FIDE player this has to be the best comp.
>performance yet at G/60.
>There are obvious reasons though to think that this performance is an anomoly
>rather than a bona fide representation of juniors strength.
>1) It was a short match (4 games) with to small a sampling.
>2) Junior's score against other top GM's at G/60, although very good, has never
>approached this level.
>3)The GM was not at his peak physical or mental level: this is moot, but after
>watching M. Gurevich's level of play I think he was not at his best. This
>especially, after he was unable to put Junior away in game three in a won
>ending.
>
>Whatever the reasons, it's still a fine performance and something I'm sure we'll
>see lots more of in the future as programs inexorably march on to total
>domination of the game of chess.
>Regards,
>Peter



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