Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:39:36 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 04:24:30, Mike S. wrote: >On August 20, 2002 at 03:41:39, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>Pardon my ignorance, but was Süchting a GM? > >I don't think so. Karlsbad 1911 was a before-FIDE event, so there was no GM >title comparable to the present. But a line in the slav defence is named after >him, from a Karlsbad game. > >But he was strong enough to compete in the strongest tournaments of that time, >for example: > >Duesseldorf 1908 > > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 >1 Marshall,Frank James * ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 1 11.5/15 Strongest tournaments of that time? Marshall was the strongest player in that tournament and he was more than 100 elo weaker than the world champion(I remember that kapablanca beated him convincingly in a match) so this is clearly not the strongest tournament of that time. Uri
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