Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 04:14:46 12/05/03
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On December 03, 2003 at 20:08:19, Rick Rice wrote: >I still haven't figured this out. When you go through a chess book you have >annotations going like this: > >4.) Bd4 ?? > > Player A - Player B in 1954, Dortmund went 4.) Bd4 Be5 .... 20.) Ra1 Re7 > >with advantage for white. > > > Player X - Player Y in 1978, New York went 4.) Bd4 Ra5 .... > >with advantage for black. > >I mean, how do they recollect that there was a similiar line in a game 20 years >ago? How do they remember that the exact moves? Even if they were referencing >some book, that would require a lot of sifting through. > >Rick Today computer databases are used, but anyway strong chessplayers have a very good memory when it comes to chess. If you do nothing other than chess, it is not really surprising. José.
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