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Subject: Re: surprising result in correspondence games

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:19:55 09/15/04

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On September 15, 2004 at 10:42:45, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>On September 14, 2004 at 14:53:18, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I found that the swiss IM  Bela Toth scored 9/11(7 wins and 4 draws) in the
>>first board of the olympiad.
>
>Bela Toth is actually Italian (and I guess hungarian or czech by family tree).
>
>He was IM when it meant something, and an IM of the 70's is probably stronger
>than many GM's of today in terms of absolute understanding of chess.
>
>>For me it is a very surprising result.
>>
>>I know that very good results are possible because a lot of players do not use
>>computers for many hours per move and I did +7 =3 against weak opposition in the
>>preliminary olympiad board 6 but I thought that similiar result is impossible
>>against first board of the final(not the preliminary olympiad).
>
>Hard to say without looking at the games, but at CC draws are also less common
>than OTB, especially if you know an endgame is won, with or without the computer
>aid.
>
>And that masters know when an endgame is won, and when it isin't.

I do not think that at CC draws are less common than OTB
Most of the games in CC at the high level are draws.

Uri



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