Dec-29-05
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| lopium: This is ridiculous but very funny to see "Highest rating achieved in database: 1834" and later to learn that he was awarded an IM title. I guess in mostly of the players plages, the highest rating showed in the database ain't the true one at all. This is a bit sad, it should be more accurated, I don't know how. |
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Dec-29-05
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| KingG: There were no ELO ratings in 1924-28, so how could he have a rating of 1834? |
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Dec-29-05
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| lopium: I guess in a game uploaded here, it was wrote that. Then chessgames.com automatically shows it at first page. Well, I guess so. |
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Jul-14-07
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| Karpova: <In 1929 [sic], when Maróczy was approaching 60 years of age and had been participating in many important tournaments for a long time, the young Hungarian players began to say that he had passed into history and that the new players were superior to those of his day. They argued in the same way as do the young players of today with respect to the masters of 20 or 30 years ago. Maróczy told me about it. “These young Hungarian players”, he said, “are nothing special. They play well but are at most players of the second or third rank. They do not know the real game, the great masters’ play; but they believe that they know a great deal and they say they are stronger than I. For my part, I am now old, I do not have the same interest as before, but their claims have annoyed me so much that I have told them I am ready to play a match with any of them.” The outcome was that a match was organized between the old master and one of the young Hungarians [Géza Nagy], who had just [sic] won the national championship. The result of the match was total success for Maróczy, for his opponent lost five games without being able to score a single point.> http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Jan-10-08 |
| paladin at large: <chessgames.com> Out of respect for a Hungarian national champion, would it be possible to delete the silly numerical ratings recorded above? You would think he was some kind of Flying Dutchman to be branded for eternity with those numbers. |
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Jan-10-08
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| alexmagnus: Guess he gets confused with this guy: http://fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?... |
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Jan-10-08
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| WannaBe: <alexmagnus> I was wondering about that... Did they have ratings back in the days where this Nagy played? I really didn't think they did... |
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Jan-10-08
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| alexmagnus: No, they didn't. The ratings shown here belown to the modern-day Nagy. But I don't see any game by him in the database... |
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| Jan-10-08 |
| paladin at large: Second issue - if anyone can get a hold of the games of the Maróczy-Nagy match and upload them, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance. |
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Apr-17-08
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| percyblakeney: Nagy seems to have been quite a strong player for a short period. In Budapest 1926 he won against Reti and Rubinstein and finished one point from first place, ahead of for example Tartakower and Reti. He was also one of the players to win gold for Hungary in the Olympiads in 1927 and 1928. |
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