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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