Author: Stephen Ham
Date: 14:45:39 09/15/04
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On September 15, 2004 at 11:19:55, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Hello Gents, I agree with Uri that it's my perception that draws are more common in the upper level of CC than in OTB. We can only speculate why that is the case, but my perception is that draws became more common in CC in lockstep with increased computer use. All the best, Stephen
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