Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 00:25:10 10/21/98
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On October 19, 1998 at 16:45:15, Mark Young: [snip] >I think just about any player in the world besides Kasparov and a very few >others would be happy going 1 draw 1 loss Vs Super GM Anand. Let alone a >microcomputer chess program playing at 40/2hr. If you look at the games there is >no question that Rebel 10 whent toe to toe playing GM Anand at 40/2hr. Depends on what you mean. I think the impression of the match is colored by the success at short time controls. Two games with 1/2 point can hardly be considered going 'toe to toe' unless you assume that victory is unlikely. Toe to toe would be 1:1, would it not? To my primitive way of thinking, 1.5:0.5 is a loss for the side with 0.5. Of course, the average 'Joe on the street' would probably be pretty happy with 1/2 point in such situations. I think any GM would want to win. Even someone two hundres points lower. That's one reason why they do so well. A drive to win. Even if they would modestly state that they would be happy with a draw and a loss, I doubt if they would mean it. *I* would be happy with a single draw, or even lasting 20 moves and losing. But that's another story.
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