Author: Albert Silver
Date: 16:13:38 08/20/02
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On August 20, 2002 at 18:52:29, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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. ;-)
Are you kidding? In 5 years from now, we'll see Chessbase publishing the latest
Annofritzed games commented with the heckling option 'On'.
"25...Nxe5?? Of course I saw this is terrible at only 9 plies and in 0.003
seconds flat, which says something about the level of the player. According to
the headers, he is rated 2570, but of course that must be a human Elo and not an
SSDF one."
Albert
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