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Subject: Why is Hawkeye still no Grandmaster?

Author: Bert Seifriz

Date: 07:31:24 01/02/00


Roland Schmaltz, a top-rated bullet player, who is well known as Hawkeye on ICC
and who won the bullet world championship twice (and many other blitz games on
the internet), says his fast internet games are making him weaker in real life
chess, according to a German newspaper.
Maybe he should not complain: he is IM with Elo 2500, 3rd of the German Blitz
championship this year (but champion last year), 7th of German Championship, and
he has already accomplished 2 steps of becoming a GM.
Nevertheless he said: I cannot play chess anymore! And this after he had won
against computers on time in the past. The question: Is it only the mouse which
makes the difference or are there other factors?

By the way, his homepage in English: www.hawkeye.de



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