Author: Bert Seifriz
Date: 07:31:24 01/02/00
Roland Schmaltz, a top-rated bullet player, who is well known as Hawkeye on ICC and who won the bullet world championship twice (and many other blitz games on the internet), says his fast internet games are making him weaker in real life chess, according to a German newspaper. Maybe he should not complain: he is IM with Elo 2500, 3rd of the German Blitz championship this year (but champion last year), 7th of German Championship, and he has already accomplished 2 steps of becoming a GM. Nevertheless he said: I cannot play chess anymore! And this after he had won against computers on time in the past. The question: Is it only the mouse which makes the difference or are there other factors? By the way, his homepage in English: www.hawkeye.de
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