Author: martin fierz
Date: 09:44:48 06/19/01
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On June 19, 2001 at 11:38:48, Mark Young wrote: >Is anyone here going to argue that (New) GM Maurice Ashley is not a true GM >level Player? no, i hope nobody is going to argue that. i'll try again: 1) rating 2500 is GM strength 2) a high rating is the sum of many factors - you can know your openings well, you can be good at tactics, you can be good at endgames, you can concentrate well, you don't get into time trouble, you don't get nervous when in slight time trouble, you can have a deep understanding for a position and find a good plan because of that, you may be a brilliant attacking player with a great feeling for the initiative - whatever. rating is just one number. like the IQ - you cannot measure a person's intelligence in one single number. similarly, reducing a chess player to one single number loses lots of information. take a look at some of these terrible games fritz SSS played at the dutch championship. come back and tell me again that this machine has GM strength :-) it certainly does have super-GM strength in some types of position, but in others it plays like a bloody beginner. a GM knows how to handle all kinds of positions, the machines don't - that's the difference. a GM can is good at all points listed under 2), a machine is not. cheers martin
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