| Mike Murray 2005-07-15, 8:38 pm |
| On 14 Jul 2005 15:51:59 -0700, "Nick" <nickbourbaki3@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
quote:
>Equinorm@AOL.com wrote (to Bill Brock):
>
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>I have no doubt that Bill Brock also was 'highly motivated'.
>It seems *not* 'reasonably likely' to me that any difference
>in motivation between Bill Brock and Sam Sloan was significant
>enough to account alone for Sam Sloan's winning the match.
>
>Sam Sloan craves being the centre of attention, and whether that
>attention's favourable or unfavourable hardly seems to concern him.
>Bill Brock seems less accustomed to being the centre of attention.
>So I suspected that Bill Brock might be more likely to blunder in
>a 'grudge match' that was receiving much attention on the internet.
Plausible. Another explanation is that Brock is much less comfortable
than Sloan when "fishing in troubled waters". He spent a lot of time
thinking in tactically chaotic positions, evidently dodging phantoms,
where he actually had the better of it.
Most players in the A/Expert range don't play the risky/unsound stuff
that Sloan does, and Brock might score better against them.
Someone once told me, "chess is not transitive".
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