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Subject: Re: Junior 7 has 2979 performance against Gurevich !!

Author: Sune Larsson

Date: 13:17:42 05/18/02

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On May 18, 2002 at 14:43:34, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On May 18, 2002 at 14:17:31, Peter Hegger wrote:
>
>that's not true this TPR. Gurevich is much weaker in
>rapid chess than his FIDE rating indicates.
>
>He's more like 2441 in rapid or so. I can kick him there namely
>too.



 Looking at the games, I think you're right here Vincent.
 In the 1st game Gurevich was slightly better but seemed to loose
 all interest in activity and space and just drifted into a lost ending.
 Very untypical for a player of his 40/2 rating. Then he just got
 heavily outplayed in the 2nd game. In the 3rd Gurevich was simply a
 piece up and managed to make a draw out of it. In today's 4th round
 he lost a levelled ending from weak play. He seemed to have left his
 technique in some restaurant or so...

 Sune
>
>>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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