Author: gerold daniels
Date: 06:12:27 05/09/05
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On May 09, 2005 at 03:51:29, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 09, 2005 at 01:16:11, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>Jorge, >> >>It only proves that a guy with a 200 IQ can play chess like a moron. Oppenheimer >>was a better physicist than Einstein but a complete nincompoop on the >>chessboard. > > >It proves nothing of what you claims. > >Note only that the claim that >"a guy with a 200 IQ can play chess like a moron" is obvious. > >Even Anand can play chess like a moron so certainly a guy with a 200 IQ that >only learned the rules before the game can play like a moron > >I do not know when Oppenheimer learned the rules of chess and what is his >experience when he lost the game so I have no opinion on his talent for chess >based on that game. > > >[Event "Biel-B"] >[Site "Biel"] >[Date "1988.07.??"] >[Round "9"] >[White "Zapata,Alonso"] >[Black "Anand,Viswanathan"] >[Result "1-0"] >[Eco "C42"] >1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Bf5 6.Qe2 1-0 > > > > >> >>TJ >> >>PS I have seen this in many highly intelligent people. They can be blindingly >>brilliant but no good at chess. > >Of course > >I think that if you want to be fair you need to tell us what is their experience >in chess. > >Chess is a game when people with no experience have no chance. > >I believe that every brilliant person can become a master if he decides that it >is important for him. > >It probably was never important for them to be good in chess. > >I have no special talent for chess(I even cannot play blindfold) but I got the >title of candidate master few days ago(Israeli rating above 2070 when Isreli >rating is equivalent to fide rating). > >I believe that I can get the master title in less than 5 years if I decide that >it is important for me and leave everything else that I do only to learn chess >but of course it is not going to happen. > >If you take 100 random people from the world population and encourage them to >get fide rating of 2300 by a lot of money then I guess that at least 50 of them >will become masters in less than 10 years. > >Prizes can be as follow(it is important to have significant prizes also for low >rating to encourage players who believe that they have no chance to become >masters) > >1)Rating above 1400 20,000$ >2)Rating above 1500 50,000$ >3)rating above 1600 100,000$ >4)rating above 1700 150,000$ >5)rating above 1800 200,000$ >6)rating above 1900 250,000$ >7)fide rating above 2000 300,000$ >8)fide rating above 2100 400,000$ >9)fide rating above 2200 600,000$ >10)fide rating above 2300 1000,000$ > >Uri good morning Uri. i don,t beleive that 50 out of 100 could become that good no matter what you pay them. Gerold.
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