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Subject: Re: there is no sign that the top-200 players are losing ground ...

Author: Michael Yee

Date: 06:28:18 10/18/03

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On October 18, 2003 at 04:35:22, Uri Blass wrote:

>On October 17, 2003 at 23:42:35, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>"there is no sign that the top-200 players are losing ground at all against the
>>top computers."
>>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1244
>>
>>...an interesting read...
>
>You cannot compare apples with oranges.
>Time control of 30 minutes per game is different than 2 hours/40 moves and you
>cannot put both time control in the same group when you do comparisons.
>
>
>Uri

Well, Sonas claims that rapid and blitz results do correlate well with FIDE
ratings... They just would need different weights than long time control results
if you wanted to use them for rating calculations.

   http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=562

Michael



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