Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 13:45:32 01/13/04
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On January 13, 2004 at 14:50:29, Uri Blass wrote: >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 In my private testings after 304877 [!!!] games, I have Movei and LIST on number one and two!! And I am not blinded by commercial PR or such some! I just research the potential in the progs. Signed: Rolf P.S. All the best to you Uri!
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