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Old 04-16-2013, 04:17 AM   #16
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Having said that, I personally found it a bit hard to believe that someone as apparently thick as Czentovich had the subtleties of mind to become a chess champion.
I don't have as much of a problem with this although it is pretty curious. He would lose a game and then never lose again. I think it was a matter of him requiring time to imprint certain elements of his opponent and then use those elements against them. After a while of course, he had imprinted enough to win without the initial loss. He wasn't subtle - he was a machine, a computer.

This is why he was still managed to be upset by someone who played with a kind of mad inspiration. But just like with all other opponents in the past, he only really required one full attempt to understand what was required to win, and in this case it was to let Dr B destabilise and defeat himself. It only really demonstrated that Czentovich was able to apply the same tactics off the board as on.

But I didn't have a problem with this aptitude being shown by an apparent dullard.
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