Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 11:05:18 03/11/03
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On March 11, 2003 at 05:15:54, Jorge Pichard wrote: >A beauty prize should NOT have any blunder, and should be considered a beauty >only on the merit of being a hard fought game, where forceful combinative play >and originality are the main ingredient. This indeed was an insult to the >greatest genius of all times in chess. Assuming that a brilliancy prize game has to be a win, such a game must have at least one blunder, otherwise there would be a draw resulting either from perfect play on both sides or two or more blunders cancelling each other out. (Cue massive argument over that logic ;) On that theme, has a brilliancy prize ever been awarded to both players in a (necessarily imperfect) drawn game? Alastair
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