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Subject: Re: The Fairy Tales of alleged cheating in the Kramnik exhibition

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 11:58:19 10/25/02

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On October 21, 2002 at 14:58:39, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Dear R:
>Good post. It gives a good account of some psychological aspects that probably
>are near truth, perhaps even they target right in the core of the truth.
>Nevertheless there is another side I invite you to consider. It is this: a GM is
>not a purely chessic entity playing all the time at his better level, BUT it is
>a mixed entity -human, at last- where considerations like those you described
>and many other more tends to be present in the average chess career of them, all
>the time, with or without computers, with of without one million bucks. His
>rating is the final product of all those features, of every time he felt
>compassion of some weak but nice GM facing him, of every time he felt lazy and
>dropped a little bit his concentration on the game, of every time he dared to
>try something weird, etc. His Gm tittle encloses all that. And Fritz drawed with
>all of that.
>My very best
>Fernando


A very good post!  A human is only a human and as such is inconsistent.  When he
is playing his best, Kramnik is much better than any computer.  But he is only
human and so, by definition, he will not always play his best.



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