Re: Strongest?

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"Alekhine's Parrot" (that quacking fowl Phil Innes) writes at the
_Chessville Weekly_:

"Coming up later this Year – Strongest ever US Tournament.

"September 19th to 28th sees a [so far] Category 15 tournament on US
soil in the 10 player SPICE CUP.  Seven of the 10 invitees have
already signed up, and I understand average Elo is currently 2600."


Question: Is it really plausible to claim that this tournament is/will
be stronger than New York 1927, or the 1st and 2nd Piatigorsky Cups?
("Highest category" would be correct, but that's not what he wrote.)

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    Im****tant News!

John Hillery thinks that any group of 10 US Players circa 1927
//averaged// 
2600 ratings.   :)))))))

[quite apart from the fact that no ratings existed, even as retrofitted 
numbers against other players in the world, that is some might claim!]

Sometimes I don't know where his talents begin - somewhere on the Yellow 
Brick Road? Anyway, now we know what the JKH definition of 'plausible' is.

It is indeed possible that he thinks 1927 players could average 2600, and 
that is enough to write into these newsgroups, with disparaging comments 
like a newbie or a follower of clan-Murray.

As a journalist, surely John Hillery will want to substatiate his point by

mentioning even one fact; for example, a list of 10 players he proposes to

average 2600 from 1927, would seem to me to be a minimum proposition on
his 
part in order to be plausible.

Phil Innes