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Subject: Re: Assessing GM Strength

Author: dfan

Date: 09:26:47 07/14/99

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On July 13, 1999 at 12:58:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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?

I thought he compared it to a recent tournament, but I don't have the book
to check; I just browsed through it in a bookstore.  Does anyone here have
the book and can check?

Dan



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