Author: Uri Blass
Date: 11:50:29 01/13/04
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On January 13, 2004 at 14:31:38, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On January 13, 2004 at 10:59:52, Steve Maughan wrote: > >>Martin, >> >>>translated this means about this: "fritz and shredder played the best chess in >>>this tournament (he is comparing against junior and brutus), and won their >>>games against the outsiders most easily" - i don't really mind the first part >>>of this sentence, but the second part is really hilarious given the shredder- >>>jonny incident! >> >>I don't really want to start up the whole Graz scandle thread but in the Jonny >>game Shredder was easily winning. > >Pardon me, you mean easily winning? And why SHREDDER didn't win (easily)? Why >had it won with the aid of someone who threw a whole game although it was a >draw? Could you explain your position? If you are a chessplayer yourself, could >you reflect your position in relation to possible cases of a PATT or THREEFOLD? >Would you dare to say that such draws are not existing because they are most >unfair to the side which has a won game???? > >Do you mean that if you call something a "bug", that then this is like >'unimportant' or 'non-existent'? > >So, if I allow a draw by a PATT for instance, that then I couzld say that I had >a bug and then I would still be judged as an extremely strong player? If the bug happens only in one game out of many games and you beat strong players then you are still a strong player inspite of the bug. I got the impression that inspite of the bug Shredder was better than Fritz and the facts are that it beated Fritz in the playoff inspite of inferior hardware. It was wrong to give it the world championship but it does not mean that Shredder was not the best in the event. The play off against Fritz is also part of the chess that was played and not only the game against Jonny so saying that shredder played the best chess may be correct. Shredder scored only 1/2 point less than Fritz before the playoff(assuming correct decisions) and shredder scored 1 point more than Fritz in the playoff so the total result in fair comparison between Shredder and Fritz is that Shredder scored 1/2 point more than Fritz. Uri
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