On May 11, 10:58 am, (Dr A. N. Walker) wrote:

[...] I think it mostly has found the players with the lowest
blunder rate fairly convincingly.

Yep. That's why my overall view is that their results
are probably not too far out, despite the obvious problems with
the methodology. If you were asked to rank the WCs in order of
the accuracy -- not necessarily the quality or success -- of
their play in WC matches, then who would argue with Capablanca
and Kramnik at the top, Karpov and Kasparov next, then very
little difference down to Smyslov, with Tal, Euwe and Steinitz
somewhat worse? The only surprise is perhaps iron man Botvinnik
below Tal; but MMB lost three WC matches, so perhaps we're not
seeing him at his best. If Crafty-12 is too "stupid" to have
reached this conclusion in a rational way, then it's been very
lucky [or else the chess world at large is equally stupid].

--
Andy Walker, School of MathSci., Univ. of Nott'm, UK.


I fully adopt Andy Walker's opinion here as my own.

This will be my last post in this thread, unless Camp #1 provokes me.

RL