Author: Jeroen Noomen
Date: 08:53:42 09/09/02
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On September 09, 2002 at 06:08:08, Côme wrote: >I don't really agree here, Remember tinsley retired from the match after 6 draws >because he was litteraly dying from cancer ! so chinook draw a dying man :-) I disagree. You cannot blame Chinook here, Tinsley was still the very best in the world and in the six games Chinook was putting the pressure. >Then he was replaced by Don lafferty and Chinook drew the match ! >Remember Lafferty despite being the second best player in the world he was >really a LOT weaker than tinsley ! I think tinsley rating was +2800 and Lafferty >like 2650 ! You still remember how Lafferty did accomplish this? By playing for a draw in every game! It is like playing soccer using 6 goalkeepers :-). Anyway, it is not fair to state that Don was a lot weaker than Marion, you wouldn't say that Anand is A LOT weaker than Kasparov, won't you? Number two in the world is number two. >So I do believe a full strenght Tinsley would have kicked chinook badly. >Laffert played hundreds of games with tinsley and he said he only beat him ONCE >and it was very late at night and tinsley was tired :-) You can believe this, but we will never know. All we can see are the 6 games played and in those games Chinook was never in trouble and once came close to winning. Jeroen
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