Author: Albert Silver
Date: 20:40:10 07/31/03
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On July 31, 2003 at 15:41:57, Alastair Scott wrote:
>On July 30, 2003 at 18:58:39, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>He then played d5 and when he returned as I was reaching
>>for my knight to play the messy complicated Na5 line he rather nervously asked
>>me if I had a rating. I replied 2084 and he, not looking very happy, asked why I
>>didn't write it down in front of the board next to my name. I replied that no
>>one asked me too and that the Belzberg people knew my rating and only today OK
>>my playing since I am a client. He then stated that if he had known I was rated
>>that highly he would have played differently rather than getting into a very
>>theoretical line. Being aware of the 2000 cutoff I again appologized for the
>>misunderstanding and we quickly realized that the Belzberg staff had erred in
>>not telling people to write down their ratings (these were different people than
>>from the NYC event). I simply stated "I'm sorry for the confusion, I won't play
>>" and started to get up and Garry, reiterating that he'd have played differently
>>vs a rated expert, started resetting the pieces to the starting position and
>>said we can restart.
>
>This silliness is almost unbelievable, and reminds me (in a negative way) of a
>simultaneous I took part in a long time ago in Central Scotland against the late
>Tony Miles. There were no histronics, no conspiracies, no problems; he took on
>everyone, including several 2200+ players, and scored 26 wins, no losses and no
>draws with what seemed to be the greatest ease.
>
>It's little wonder he was so highly thought of (and, it seems, Kasparov is
>losing what regard he had).
>
>Alastair
Vlastimil Hort set a record of some 600(!!) players in a simul (only 50 at a
time, vacating seats as they became available) with an average of about 2000 and
scored something along the lines of 88%. I guess poor Hort was only rated about
2600 so he didn't know any better.
Albert
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