Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:17:28 07/09/03
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On July 09, 2003 at 06:37:29, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>On July 09, 2003 at 05:17:45, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>On July 09, 2003 at 01:00:26, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>This highly respected list:
>>>http://www.chessmetrics.com/FE/Graphs150.htm
>>>has Capablanca and Fischer at around 3000 ELO. Of course, it's just a number.
>>
>>Whoever made this graph made it using a personal choice, since Alekhine should
>>be rated higher than Capablanca.
>>
>>Pichard
>>
>
>Why should Alekhine be rated higher than Capablanca? Against each other they had
>an even score during their whole career. And against other opponents Capablanca
>scored clearly better. Of course it is posible that Alekhine's opponents were
>stronger, but since their were contemporaries (Capablanca was only four years
>older than Alekhine), I doubt the difference in opponents' streght is big.
>José.
While I agree with you, I think Alekhine might have had a higher peak rating
than Capablanca due to his massacre of the competition during the 1930-1931
period.
Albert
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