Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:24:20 12/17/00
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On December 17, 2000 at 11:34:07, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On December 17, 2000 at 11:13:34, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>As a matter of fact, famous, very rich, very important and so and so kind of >>people tend to be considered, always, as "very good" at any activity they >>perform. It is part of his glamour. Take the case of Napoleon. > >Or mine, for instance. > >> If you look at >>any of his documented games, you will see he clearly is an agressive but at most >>average kind of player AND playing against people very inclined to concede >>victory to the Great Man. Nevertheless you always can get a book about Napoleon >>where it is said he was a master level player. >>Of course, smartness has a very asimetrical relation with chess ability. >>Einstein was a less than average player and that would be enough to probe the >>case. On the opposite side, a more than average chess player cannot be a dude. >>In fact I.Q data has been collected about many GM players and if I recall well, >>most of them or even all are above 140 IQ people, that is, in the 2 or 3% most >>high part of the curve. > >So much for the IQ test. I met magnificent chess players that were magnificent >imbeciles, and extremely intelligent people that played horrible chess. For >example, I have never been a great player. I believe that every intelligent player can learn to become a master if it is important for him(her) and (s)he has enough time to invest on chess and he has the right chess program to teach him(her). One of the problems is that I guess that the right program is not on the market. I believe that it can be an possible target of chess programmmers to create a program that teach players to become masters(fide rating of 2300) in one year if the players use the program 4 hours per day. In order to convince other players that the program is productive they should first try to use the program for themselves in order to become masters. Uri
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