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Subject: Shredder 8 in Argentina: what would Kasparov do?

Author: George Sobala

Date: 10:17:26 07/21/04


It has been claimed that a REAL super GM would also have struggled to get a good
TPR against such lowly opposition as Shredder faced in Argentina.

To investigate this further, I posed the question: how would Kasparov have
performed?

To do this, I have looked at all games played by Kasparov against opponents with
ELO 2200 to 2500 from the year 1990, as recorded in Chess Assistant Hugebase,
with updates.

His results are:

+57 =23 -2

Assuming average opponent ELO is 2350 (I cannot be bothered to calculate it
exactly and this is about right):

TPR = 2632,  95% CI = 2538 to 2683

Haha! Kasparov, like Shredder-8, is undone by weak opponents!

Except that, unlike Shredder-8's games, all Gary's games were SIMULS .....



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