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Subject: Re: About Playing Strength

Author: Paul Jacobean Sacral

Date: 23:32:30 11/27/05

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On November 27, 2005 at 19:51:42, Christos Gitsis wrote:

>I believe that he is of master strength, but no IM or GM.
>This is of course only a guess.

I think so, too. In my posting after his not very telling explanation why he
overruled 4...g5 so quickly having Fruit play it's second best choice instead, I
did not use any offensive wording. It was a purely "chessic" reply, continued by
Uri Blass the same style, being on topic with analytical remarks. I expect that
a grandmaster would at least give some thoughts or more details about his
estimation of the position after 4...g5?, in other words chess content, not just
blah. For example, it would have been interesting if he had seen that 8.Kf2 will
be more or less forced, or if he just trusted an intuitive estimation that g5
was bad, immediatly.

http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?464564

My approach is, if a master has to expect he will be forced to 8.Kf2, he cannot
instantly trash 4...g5. Yes he can trash it, but not instantly. Some more
comments about this:

http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?464655

So, here wasn't argueing nor insults, here was just chess.

Maybe it was a clever advertisement for chess software: You get advice at master
level from your chess program much easier than from a real grandmaster! :-)

Yours truly Paul J. Sacral



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