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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 09:02:18 10/18/03

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On October 18, 2003 at 09:28:18, Michael Yee wrote:

>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

I do not believe to everything that sonas claims.

Uri



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