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A team
Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer In Response To: A team (Timothy Chow)
Date: Saturday, 14 April 2012, at 11:51 p.m.
Løber is also very strong, and as you might deduct from the thread about the team I linked to on DBgF, I suspect he was very close to making the team.
I'd probably say he's another player type than Gus, Sander and Bonding, like Hristo describes it. Løber has played a lot and is very experienced. He's capable of low error rates, but I think not the really ultra low ones. He's improved his game slowly and consistently over a long period of time, to get to where he is now.
I think he is the youngest GM in DBgF BTW. To get that title currently, you need to score consistently well in live play for a long period of time (bot-norms are new, so to get 4 norms currently (as needed for GM), you need sustained high rating and titles. Thus low PR alone will not make the cut, but the ability to simply win matches and play consistent is important, and Henrik has that ability in spades).
I would compare his "category" to that of Mik, who you saw play this year.
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BTW: Hristo, I agree with your description of Bonding. It was so impressive how FAST he made it to the top level. Elgaard could easily be a bit underestimated in that regard, because it was kind of the same for him, why I would also suspect that he would be capable of reaching top level again within a very short time-span.
PJT was playing at a very strong level before the bots really changed the game. He had a broad understanding of the game, probably reading all books available back then, and carrying a sizeable prop archive with him. That can be seen if you go analyze some of his matches from the mid nineties with today's bots. Michael Jensen the same. A bit like Wilcox Snellings I suppose, who I believe (from browsing recorded matches from the pre-bot era) maybe had the best understanding of the game as we know it today.
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