Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 12:23:22 07/21/04
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On July 21, 2004 at 13:17:26, George Sobala wrote:
>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.
Not "would have" but "could have". Anyone could have a bad day. Remeber
Anand's Dortmund disaster (2505 TPR)? I am sure he would like to forget it:
Sparkassen Cat XXI, Dortmund GER
, 2001
Average Rating: 2752 (Category 21)
Rtng Age Nat Score T M K A L A Perf Chg
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1: Topalov, Veselin 2710 gm 25 BUL 1.0 / 1 X . . 1 . . 3789 +6
2: Morozevich, Alexander 2745 gm 23 RUS 1.0 / 1 . X . 1 . . 3789 +6
3: Kramnik, Vladimir 2800 gm 25 RUS 1.0 / 1 . . X 1 . . 3789 +5
4: Anand, Viswanathan 2790 gm 31 IND 1.0 / 5 0 0 0 X = = 2505 -19
5: Leko, Peter 2730 gm 21 HUN 0.5 / 1 . . . = X . 2790 +1
6: Adams, Michael 2740 gm 29 ENG 0.5 / 1 . . . = . X 2790 +1
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5 games: +1 =2 -2
>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
Look at Shredder's results against the same crowd.
>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 .....
In other words, Kasparov never plays 2400 players at tournemant time control.
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