Author: Albert Silver
Date: 21:16:57 11/27/05
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On November 27, 2005 at 18:45:07, Sune Larsson wrote:
>On November 27, 2005 at 18:14:15, Albert Silver wrote:
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>>While I do not mean to besmirch Uri's chess ability by any means, he is not a
>>master. It is easy to talk big, and even easier when you hide behind Internet
>>anonymity and have engines and chess material (databases, etc.) to back you up.
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>>All that talk about "having more RAM than you would believe", Fruit's passivity,
>>and of course his ease, not in one game but in general, to beat it, does NOT
>>sound like the talk of a genuine top player. It sounds much more like someone
>>trying to convince others they are blasé about their strength. The problem is
>>that real super strong players are usually confident enough in themselves to not
>>need such talk. That type of presentation is usually that of insecure people.
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> You've got a clear point here. Boosting about oneself is a sign of insecurity
>- feelings of lacking something. But as I recall, he called himself
>a patzer and *not* a GM... So when you call him a "fraud" - you must refer to
>something else?!
He never said he was a GM, nor did I claim he did, though the implication of
doing better than they is clear. I'm not even saying the game he presented,
other than the opening oddity noted by others, didn't happen as he described.
I'm referring to the regular ease he reported on beating Fruit on his
übermachine.
Albert
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>>I'll tell you straight out. In my opinion, if he was a GM who had really wanted
>>to discuss the engine's perceived faults, I think the first thing he would have
>>done would be to establish his strength and status in no uncertain way, and then
>>explained the issues he found with the engine. That way the focus of the
>>discussion would be on the topic and not himself. There would NOT be all those
>>games on who he really was, and was he as strong as he suggested.
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>>I think he was a fraud.
>>
>> Albert
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