Author: Albert Silver
Date: 15:22:18 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 05:57:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>On August 20, 2002 at 04:46:46, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On August 20, 2002 at 04:39:36, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>(...) so this is clearly not the strongest tournament of that time.
>>
>>But *one of* the stronges (there were much less tournament that noadays).
>>
>>Note that Süchting scored ahead of Johner, Treybal, Wolf, von Bardeleben in that
>>tournament which was probably his best performance.
>>
>>I think you know at least the name von Bardeleben?
>
>Yes
>
>I remember that he lost a game on time against lasker when lasker sacrificed a
>rook again and again and Bardeleban did not accept and when Bardeleben
>understood that he has no chances he decided to leave the tournament room
>instead of resigning.
>
>My impression based on that game was that players were not so weak at that time
>when we talk about tactics so I do not understand how it is possible that
>the same Bardeleban got less points than a player who does often big tactical
>mistakes based on other posts.
>
>Uri
How often did he play? Perhaps he was rusty. Who can say? Haven't you ever had a
bad tournament? I don't see this as significant. Loek Van Wely came in dead last
in a tournament this year (or last), scoring something like 1.5/9. Mind you he's
ONLY rated about 2700. The blunders he was making were absurd for a player of
his caliber, yet there you are. Morozevich has done likewise, and so have
others. All it shows is that they are human.
Albert
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