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Subject: Re: OT: How the hell do the chess geeks annotate??

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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