Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 09:12:43 01/18/99
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On January 18, 1999 at 03:41:56, blass uri wrote: > >On January 18, 1999 at 01:59:39, Laurence Chen wrote: > >>I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with your statements. It's like asking a GM >>rated 2500+ to play at 1400 ELO which is impossible to accomplish. So what you >>are asking is out of question. Look at the chess literature available, they all >>use chess master games, and very few books are written with games played by >>amateurs, with exception of Max Euwe books, Amateur vs. Amateur, Amateur vs. > >It is easy to find games played by 1600 players. >You can look at the games of the weakest players in the olympiad or in games of >the under 10 girls and boys championship. > > >>Chessmaster, and Silman, the Amateur's Mind. You won't find a single chess >>magazine quoting games played by amateurs. > >How do you know? >Did you look in all the magazines? > >I do not know about games of 1200-1400 players but I know that there are some >games of 1600-1900 players in the magazine of the israel chess organization. > > So how would you expect chess >>programmers come up with chess engines which plays like a 1200, or 1400? > >They can ask 1200-1400 players to give them their games. > >Uri Uri, would you subscribe to a chess magazine which specialized in games played by amateurs? Or would you buy a chess database which contains games played by amateurs only, no masters games? Seriously speaking, chessplayers use master games as model games to help them improve their games, the same principle applies to chess databases and chess engines.
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