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Subject: ChessBase Is Paying Attention!

Author: Daniel Jackson

Date: 11:00:36 07/23/04


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Posted by George Sobala (Profile) on July 21, 2004 at 13:17:26:


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 .....



http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1803

We were forwarded the following factoid from the forums:

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. 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 Garry's games were SIMULS!

Daniel

:)



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