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Subject: Re: Assessing GM Strength

Author: dfan

Date: 09:06:39 07/13/99

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On July 13, 1999 at 11:57:17, Kristo Miettinen wrote:

>Does anyone have any ideas on how to use computers to objectively assess the
>strength of human GM's based on the games of past tournaments?

There's an interesting chapter in "John Nunn's Chess Puzzle Book" in which
he used Fritz to blundercheck the games of a tournament from early this
century (maybe 1920's, I don't remember exactly).  He came to the conclusion
that play was overall much weaker in those days.

Dan



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