Re: Greatest upsets or unexpected results in chess tournament history (list)

On Jan 10, 2:29 pm, raylopez99 <raylope...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 10, 6:35 am, Taylor Kingston <tkings...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ray, you said "I wanted to see why [Lasker] didn't play better
against Capa..." I don't see how statistics can answer such a
question. It can only be answered in terms of physical and
psychological factors affecting the players involved. AFAIK, Elo-type
statistics can only be used to summarize the players' results up to
1921, which become a basis for a mathematical prediction. They don't
explain the real "why."

Yes, but statistics are the basis for how atoms and molecules work

But what if they are retired atoms, or unemployed
molecules?


Taylor, and indeed have a say in free will. If everything was
deterministic, then there would be no free will. The fact that at any
time we can fall into a black hole (Hume's scepticism) is the basis
for free will, the "why", as you say.

So, you are saying that if Mr. Hume had not come
up with this theory, there would be no basis whatever
for free will? Hmmm.


Smyslov, who almost beat Kasparov in the
1980s during a Candidate match,

"Almost beat"? Kasparov won +4 -0 =9.

I was thinking that Smyslov played well for his age, and as per the
statistics he would have won +6 - 0 = 7

You even got this wrong. The guy with four
wins was Gary Kasparov, so had two of their
draws been won instead by GM Smyslov, the
score would then become +4 -2 =7, with GK
up by two games.

Face it: you are punch-drunk; if my hunch
is correct, there is a 10% chance that a
famous boxer has bitten off one or more of
your ears, then landed a solid blow which
has rendered your brain permanently impaired.
The other 80% chance is that you have been
drinking and posting. (I deliberately messed
up the math here, so as not to confuse you
even more.)


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