Author: Côme
Date: 09:02:43 09/09/02
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On September 09, 2002 at 11:53:42, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >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. Well number two isn't the important thing here ! Tinsley was rated over 2800 ( like kasparov) and Lafferty was 2650 at most ! I would call that a LOT weaker ! > > >>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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