Talk:Marion Tinsley

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Minister of what church?[edit]

Someone changed the fact that Tinsley was a Baptist minister to state that he was a minister of the Church of Christ. The web seems to support the former statement including the website www.wylliedraughts.com/Tinsley.htm Please bring forth evidence if this is inaccurate. Sr.Wombat 05:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Number of lost games[edit]

The article states: "Tinsley never lost a World Championship match, and lost only nine games (two of them to the Chinook computer program) in his entire 45 year career.". This source states that he only lost seven games in his last 45 years. The two games against Chinook is said to be the 6th and 7th games he lost. Did the writer of the wiki article add two games to the seven lost games forgetting that the Chinook games was included? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.203.98.201 (talk) 03:51, 5 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I changed it back to seven games, citing the link you gave. —Lowellian (reply) 01:54, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

World Champion Emeritus?[edit]

At this time, the article has: "In one game, Chinook, playing with white pieces, made a mistake on the tenth move. Tinsley remarked, "You're going to regret that." Chinook resigned after move 36, fully 26 moves later. The lead programmer Schaeffer looked back into the database and discovered that Tinsley picked the only strategy that could have defeated Chinook from that point and Tinsley was able to see the win 64 moves into the future.[3][4]

The ACF and the EDA were placed in the awkward position of naming a new world champion, a title which would be worthless as long as Tinsley was alive. The ACF granted Tinsley the title of World Champion Emeritus as a solution."

Why did they need to name a new champion and why was it awkward? This last sentence doesn't logically stem from the previous and at least to a layman such as myself, it leaves me with questions. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.115.251.126 (talk) 19:35, 10 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

World Champion in 1975?[edit]

The article mentions Marion Tinsley was World Champion between 1975 and 1991. But the list of World Championship Titles doesn't mention any year between 1958 and 1979.

How did Marion Tinsley become World Champion in 1975? 2001:985:5AA4:1:A06D:E93D:5B0B:22F3 (talk) 19:42, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]