Re: Why didn't Petrosian win any games?

Alan O'Brien wrote in message ...

>Also, as the Oxford Companion to Chess points out, he was the first
champion
>to successfully defend his title to his strongest challenger.

Since Steinitz.

>His score in chess olympics is quite superb; I think it's something like
+97
>=12 -1. That's from memory.


Not quite that good: +79=50-1. (For comparison: Keres +53=32-3; Tal
+59=31-2: all according to the OCC).
His loss (against Huebner) was on time.