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Subject: Re: Odyssee2001-tournament: pgn in round 6, standings again CONSISTENCY!

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 05:40:28 07/15/01

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On July 15, 2001 at 07:36:37, Uri Blass wrote:
>The problem is that it is possible that Nimzo8 was lucky to get positions that
>it understands.

the way it plays is the way the strength gets realized.
the scores, the mainlines, the game.


>I agree that seeing games give more information then seeing only results but the
>problem is that people do not know to get the right conclusions from this
>information.

which conclusions do you get from 500 game results ?
none.
does it tell you what to change ? the weaknesses ?
no.
it only tells you how much.


>I believe that 500 results give more information then 10 games even if the
>people know to get the right conclusions from watching games.

500 times throwing bones into the air gives 500 times the information
1-0, 1/2, 0-1.

you have 500 events, and get 3 different results.
200 times 1-0
200 times 0-1
and 100 times 1/2.

and now ?
what conclusions do you get ?


>Uri



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