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Subject: Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE

Author: Timothy J. Frohlick

Date: 11:18:09 12/01/99

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On December 01, 1999 at 12:59:53, blass uri wrote:

>On December 01, 1999 at 11:47:08, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote:
>
>
><snipped>
>>but I can't touch the masters.  Why?  I am not smart enough. I only have an IQ
>>of 137 and that is slipping every day.
>
>I do not think that most of the masters have more than IQ 137.
>It is a question of learning the game and talent for chess and not of IQ.
>
>I believe that my talent for chess is not very good because I cannot see many
>moves forward without seeing the board.
>
>Inspite of this fact I did a very good result in my last tounament including a
>daw with 2 masters and a win against one master and my final performance out of
>7 games was 2183 (The masters were not very strong masters(rating only
>2200-2300)) and my rating is going to be again more than 2000
>
>Uri

Uri,

You are partially correct.  I can beat the snot out of my 170 IQ M.D. or PhD
associates on the chessboard.  I think that if they practiced though it would be
the other way around.  I really do think that at the high master level of chess
you do need "smarts".  Really smart is at the level of Sir Isaac Newton or
Steven Hawkings or John Von Neumann---That is so bright that one would think of
these folks as Martians.  You can probably play better chess than these guys.

I am also very good at mopping the floor with the smart people when it comes to
blitz chess.  There again, I think that it is merely a matter of practice. If I
played Anand or Miles or Benjamin at blitz I would go down in flames in twenty
moves or less.

The truth is that neither of us is as dumb as they think they are. My point was
that CCC members are not "average" chess players and that,indeed, they can more
frequently beat the machines. Average chess players usually get slaughtered by
the top chess programs.

Respectfully,

TJ Frohlick

• Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE Fernando Villegas 13:22:15 12/01/99
  • Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE Ramón Martínez 06:32:03 12/02/99
    • Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE blass uri 08:25:30 12/02/99
    • Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE Chris Carson 07:00:05 12/02/99
      • Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE Jeremiah Penery 01:43:30 12/03/99
      • Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE Ramón Martínez 07:09:45 12/02/99
  • Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE Jeroen van Dorp 13:26:41 12/01/99
    • Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE Walter Koroljow 18:04:10 12/01/99
      • Re: CCC Members are Probably Very Strong Chess Players and NOT AVERAGE Baldomero Garcia, Jr. 21:39:41 12/01/99

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