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Message from discussion Greatest chess players ever? Capa, Kramnik, Karpov, Kasparov, *in that order* (cuz 'puters don't lie!)
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David Richerby  
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 More options Apr 25 2007, 4:46 am
Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc, rec.games.chess.computer
From: David Richerby <dav...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: 25 Apr 2007 09:46:51 +0100 (BST)
Local: Wed, Apr 25 2007 4:46 am
Subject: Re: Greatest chess players ever? Capa, Kramnik, Karpov, Kasparov, *in that order* (cuz 'puters don't lie!)

raylopez99  <raylope...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3455

> This was the article I was thinking of, per my earlier post, not the
> Jeff Sonas article.

That article is, frankly, junk: I'm surprised it was ever accepted for
an academic conference.

They haven't determined the strongest champion of all time: they've
determined which World Champion plays most like a crippled version of
Crafty.  That's better than working out which World Champion plays
most like me but not much better.  See Soren Riis's rebuttal

  http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3465

Dave.

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