Author: Luis E. Alvarado
Date: 08:32:00 01/02/00
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On January 02, 2000 at 10:31:24, Bert Seifriz wrote: Bert, I ask the same question myself about Roland not being already a GM. I have seen him play at ICC and beat continuosly GMs. These are my two cents of why I think being a top bullet chess player does not mean he can be great chess player at standard times. (1) Imagine that the the Brain response could be modeled as some sort of sinusoidal function. In some people this curve raises very fast (high frequency) as is the case for blitz player. In some people the raise time is much slower (older people like me). In standard chess, the raise time of the curve is not as important as its final value. Of course with time the brain gets tired and the response decreases. (2) Also, he may be getting used to playing moves that are good for rapid chess but are not neceseraly good for standard chess. Example, trading material if you are ahead in time. >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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