Author: martin fierz
Date: 02:03:36 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 04:39:36, Uri Blass wrote: >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 it doesn't matter if it is THE strongest. suechting played in duesseldorf 1908, and in karlsbad 1911, and i don't even care about the rest. in duesseldorf, players like marshall, spielmann and mieses played, in karlsbad you have alekhine, tartakower etc. those were some of the very best players of the time, and suechting obviously was worthy to play in tournaments with them. even if you are right, and these players are not the very top, but 100 elo below; that would be comparable to 2600+ players of today, as far as relative strength goes. and against such players, suechting would definitely just score 0%. aloha martin
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