On Apr 23, 4:03 am, David Richerby
wrote:
raylopez99 wrote:
bot, have you seen the articles by chess statistician Jeff Sonas on
the greatest champions ever? The research that 'backsolved' GW
games using computers to show which GMs made the fewest errors (both
in winning AND in losing games)? That showed Capa (and Lasker) and
Kasparov (and Karpov) and Fischer (and Petrosian) to be the greatest
players ever?

Well, it's good to know that almost half the World Champions have
been the greatest players ever. Must really suck to be Steinitz (or
Alekhine) or Euwe (or Botvinnik) or Smyslov (or Tal) or Spassky (or
Kramnik).

Dave.

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I confused Sonas article (see this thread, he
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2409 ), which actually
concluded the best four players ever were Kasparov, Karpov, Lasker and
Capa, with another study.

Curious why you think Sonas formulae are flawed (if that's what you
meant).

RL