Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 07:39:42 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 08:31:07, Graham Laight wrote: >Fritz seems to be unable to put up any sort of serious fight. It's like watching >a 10 year old kid in the boxing ring with Lennox Lewis. > Funny, I was thinking of posting a boxing analogy too. Top GMs are like highly skilled, highly trained boxers. Suddenly instead of a traditional opponent in the ring, there is a 5-year-old child with a machine gun. For awhile, the boxers are getting killed! This is a new type of opponent. The child does not understand boxing but it has vicious weapons that can destroy the boxer before his superior understanding and technique can be a factor. Gradually, though, boxers begin to understand that this opponent is not a better boxer but simply has different weapons than the opponents they had trained for their entire careers. Boxers begin to train for this type of opponent. It takes awhile, but boxers begin to win matches against this new opponent. Even when the child is given two machine guns instead of one, and both machine guns are twice as fast as before, the boxer can still win the match if he is highly skilled, well trained, and careful.
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