Thursday, January 21, 2021

Sure-Fire Prediction Fails

 


In the above note (Ha'aretz, April 30th, 1954, p. 3), there is a report of the Jerusalem championship, with Dobkin, Czerniak, Etinger (ph. spelling) and others. Of the three unfinished games, the editor  of the chess column notes, inter alia, that "Etinger is about to beat Czerniak." 

That's certainly an expert's opinion. The editor was Moshe Czerniak. But he was wrong! As he reports On June 11th in the same paper, p. 3:


 "The game Czerniak - Ettinger, in which Ettinger was about to win, ended in a draw after a surprising and extraordinary ending." This time, Czerniak adds also that "Czerniak is about to win again Zucker..." (ph. spelling). 

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