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Subject: Re: can GM's learn from programs

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:45:26 05/22/02

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On May 22, 2002 at 10:25:34, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On May 22, 2002 at 07:23:51, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>
>>In general I suspect that Grandmasters don't exploit computing power as much as
>>they could, except for the very best. But that is merely a hunch.
>
>
>Every week in the Boston Globe newspaper, GM Patrick Wolff annotates a game.
>He's a good guy and a strong GM, but he clearly annotates without assistance
>from a computer.  Just 5 minutes a week spent with any modern program could help
>him avoid the gross tactical errors my PC easily finds in the annotations.

The problem is that GM's are not payed for the correctness of their annotations
so they often do not care to be correct.

I doubt if this is the situation when they learn lines for games that they are
going to play.

Uri



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