Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 13:16:01 12/17/00
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On December 17, 2000 at 15:24:20, Uri Blass wrote: >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. I think the key-word is passion. Same as in all other sports, passion + talent = success. Ed >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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