Author: Stephen A. Boak
Date: 22:05:17 08/01/01
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On August 01, 2001 at 12:22:52, Adam Oellermann wrote: <snip> >Good points. I'm still having a little difficulty imagining what kind of chess >would be played by a USCF ELO 100 player. > >- Adam Example--knows he wants to move a knight, but spends several minutes looking for it. Example--makes three illegal moves trying to get out of check, before finding & making the only losing move of 10 possible legal choices. Example--holds on to his moved piece a good while, double checking very carefully, before letting it go on an illegal square. I suspect a beginning player who enters the lowest section of a scholastic event and loses all games to opponents rated approx 500, would have a starting rating of about 100. I remember playing a neighborhood kid a series of casual games over many years, when I was a boy. He started off by trouncing me 17 games in a row! Most of his initial victories used variations on mating lines homing in on f2 or f7. No sooner did I learn how to spot and avoid one version (Q+B mate!), then he'd spring another on me (Q+N mate!). :) Eventually I acquired a treasured Reinfield paperback, learned some basics including some opening theory (lucky for me!), and started to beat him more regularly than he beat me. I ended the series +45 to +50 games ahead, out of about 250 total...despite the excruciatingly slow start! We all start somewhere, some at a lower level than others. :) --Steve
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