Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:52:29 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 18:22:18, Albert Silver wrote: >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. No doubt they will receive a major lampooning one hundred years from now, when a future GM writes his book. ;-)
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