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Subject: Re: Assessing GM Strength

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:58:31 07/13/99

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On July 13, 1999 at 12:06:39, dfan wrote:

>
>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


The problem is, he didn't check current tournaments.  I see lots of outright
mistakes today as well, in GM games.  GMs aren't infallible.  The only question
is, does the mistake change the outcome, or just the number of moves in the
game?



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