Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 10:02:05 12/15/05
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On December 15, 2005 at 12:29:15, Joachim Rang wrote: >On December 15, 2005 at 12:06:45, David H. McClain wrote: > >>A breath of fresh air and one who appears to be a fine young man! >> >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2802 >> >>What are the time controls on the rapid knockout games? >>DHM > >The story continues: Today Magnus Carlsen beated Gata Kamsky in a fine manner. >In the next rating list Carlsen will gain 50 points or so. > >Joachim Yes, I spoke to a GM friend about playing vs superior (at least in rating) opponents - and his remark was that "you are almost forced to play better and better"... I think he has a point here - and maybe that goes for playing top engines too - if you take the games seriously. At least I try to sharpen up immensly when playing f.e. Rybka - else it would be totally impossible. I hastly calculated Magnus' performance in the the World Cup tournament games - and found 8.5/14 - that's +3 - vs an average opposition of 2652... /S
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