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Subject: Re: Shredder 8 in Argentina: what would Kasparov do?

Author: George Sobala

Date: 13:08:41 07/21/04

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On July 21, 2004 at 15:01:58, Andrei P wrote:

>Simul does decrease performance (naturally), I would not be surprised if the
>decrease is 20-40 points per opponent. so Garry played according to his rating
>if he had 10 opponents in each simul.
>
>on a related note, does anybody have some statistics on how simul decreases
>one's performance? the numbers I mentioned I got from a could of simuls I looked
>at a while ago.

Perhaps it works like comps: a drop of 40 or so ELO for each doubling of the
number of opponents (and so a halving of thinking time per opponent).




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