Mmmm. Who brought the Danishes? Cherry. Blueberry. Cream cheese.

In the match with Marshall, Lasker's score was 11.5/15, which indeed gives a percentage of .767 (77%) >

My bad, it seems I cut & pasted in Cambridge Springs results during one of my edits.

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... As to starting slowly, at Maehrisch-Ostrau 1923, Lasker was 4.5/6 before making 6/7 in the remainder. ...>

Thx, I have only the tournament table, but not how the games followed each other. All in all, Lasker scored +8 =5 -0 in Ostrava (10.5/13). He defeated Reti (9.5), Euwe (7), Tartakower (7), Bogolubov (6.5), Tarrasch (6.5), Pokorny (5), H. Wolf (4.5), and Walter (2.5); drew with Gruenfeld (8.5), Seleznev (7.5), Spielmann (6), Rubinstein (5.5), and Hromadka (4.5).

As for the question whether Lasker had a slow start or not. Thanks to you, we know that Lasker had 3 draws in the first 6 games, 2 draws in the latter 7 games. How does that compare with a null-hypothesis that those draws were distributed uniform-randomly throughout the tournament? I boot-strapped out the numbers --- the null-hypothesis probability of 3 or more draws in the first 6 games is slightly over 41%.

LOL!

Insults are the last refuge of a redundent argument.Well on the net anyway.

No problem-we're in this thing together! Now that I'm past fifty, there's rust showing up in my own mind. Have had to make some adjustments.

It was a great example of Spassky's play in the late 1960s.

Spassky vs Geller, 1968

The title was <The King Is More Important>.

I did see this, though, which appears horrible, if true:

You say not to talk about Fischer, but you seem to be one of the people doing most of the talking about him.. heh

I'll just say this. I respect Fischer as one of the greats because he was a one man wrecking machine, and he made it to the 'summit of everest' by himself basically(or at least that's what i think, correct me if i'm wrong).

Spassky, while great, along with all the other greats, had more support than Fischer i think, and at the time, Fischer also had huge responsibility on his shoulder, more than other normal GM's or Russian GM's(unless you were WC, but even then you had/have the whole 'soviet school' still). So i'm guessing many others(and including myself of course), also respect and give Fischer 'extra credit' for that, rather than just his candidate run or him being WC alone..

We can UNDERSTAND just WHY he thinks the way he does, and SYMPATHIZE/EMPATHIZE with him rather than having a knee jerk reaction and label him as crazy like those who don't know about his history, his mentality, and what he went through. Or those with political/ideological differences who wish to use his public outbursts to further their own political/ideological goals. Yeah, you tell us not to make things up and say he would have been unbeaten or whatever if he stuck around to play 10 years of chess and 'prove himself' on those he has already beaten, and also to beat up and comers..

If we have to do that, then you should also shut up and not say he was 'scared', or that he couldn't do it and he knew it etc. No, he doesn't know even if he thinks/says he does. You don't know either, and neither do we. It's all speculation. Like you were saying.. right?

Same thing for Spassky. People can easily write him off as crazy from these few reports, but i will not judge him based just on this. I want to hear the full story, since i don't think we've heard all of it yet.

Anyone know how trustworthy or knowledgable his sister is? Because yeah. She seems like on the 'other side', or she doesn't know all the facts and is trying to save face(for the family). So while she may be telling what she thinks is the truth, i think that she's hardly impartial since i think Boris implicated her in the original allegations he made?

Or rather, in her own words since she said something to the effect of "this cannot be Boris's words", but unless Frederic Friedel from Chessbase is mistaken or lying(since he reported that he SPOKE to Boris and he recognizes his voice and confirmed his identity), i believe that it was Boris's words. Maybe he's not 100% there mentally, but it is him.

<Chessbase: The World Champion claims that he fled from Paris of his own free will.

Iraida Spasskaya: My brother has always been a very independent person, prone to taking unpredictable decisions. But in this case it is his serious illness that led to this act of folly.>

Source: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

So at the start, she says it cannot be him or he didn't make that decision himself but had 'help', but then she says that he made that decision?

Something smells fishy.. i want to hear Boris make an announcement soon. I HOPE he makes one.

I hope you are well and we will see you around soon safe and sound Mr Spassky.

Well it's just a dumb question then..

The fact is that Spassky is considered merely as a rival to Fischer.

Not to mention his "swansong"* which was the USSR ch. 1973, won by a full point against a crushing field.