A victory for a mortal!

I feel i must draw attention to this brilliant display from Procyk, who managed to secure a draw from the mighty PO in our group of the Alpha 6x6 3/33 tournament. My hat goes off to you Marijan, very impressive! 😀

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My hat goes off to him. I've played ThePO and he utterly destroyed me twice. Although why take so long to agree to the draw in the final position? Isn't it absolutely dead?

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
My hat goes off to him. I've played ThePO and he utterly destroyed me twice. Although why take so long to agree to the draw in the final position? Isn't it absolutely dead?

The most ThePO can lose for a draw is 12 points. This is because K is 24 (2100-2399 rating) and points lost is given by K*(0.5-w) where w = win expectancy and 0 < w < 1.

Also a draw is hardly a victory (title of thread) is it?

Not loosing to a player who is 5-600 points higher rated than you is a victory in my opinion. I was only quoting a ruff guess at the amount he'd loose for a draw. 15 or 20, it's all give or take. For the PO 15 points is a lot. As one of the highest rated players it takes a long time to get that many points as everyone else is lower (normally much lower) so my point still stands that he'd rather win than draw. Just pop a glance at ironmans graph, he doesn't get anything for any of his wins any more.

It's rude to call draws, victories.
You can call it an accomplishment instead.

Originally posted by marinakatomb
I feel i must draw attention to this brilliant display from Procyk, who managed to secure a draw from the mighty PO in our group of the Alpha 6x6 3/33 tournament. My hat goes off to you Marijan, very impressive! 😀

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