i assume so. why not?
?Do 2200+ players prepare against U2000 players?
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Apr 2, 2011
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That's a good question.
I would assume that most of the time, they don't.
What do you do as a close to 2200 elo player ?
i guess it depends on the level of preparation. i heard anand spent 6 months or a year preparing for kramnik in the world championship
That's his style -- once you've read through a few of them you'll learn to stop reading at the name of the poster.
Did you just pre-emptively dismiss any and all rebuttals?
Where were you when the Arrogance thread was approaching 3000 posts?
Apr 3, 2011
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Much as I emotionally don't want to support uhoh at times nevertheless he is correct here in that a 200 point gap gives the same probability of winning percentage regardless of where one is on the scale.
He may also not be available to respond this weekend as he has told us he lives in Cork (albeit not the city) so he's no doubt beating the GM's and IM's in the Cork CHess Congress this weekend.
Its very different in the US to "prepare" for an opponent than it is in Europe. Why ? Well, because very many US players dont play any FIDE rated games and so their games cannot be found in any databases. Just try finding any of my games in the US from 1973-1997 and good luck ! Yet you can easily find my fide rated games since I moved to Europe. This fact makes preparing for US players ( that dont also play many fide rated games ) all but impossible unless you know them and their repertoire already or know someone who does......
Apr 3, 2011
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That actually seems preferable to me. Why does organized chess at higher levels facilitate the role of preparing for specific opponents anyways? Wouldn't it be better to lessen its impact by using a non predictable pairing system, not letting players know in advance who they will play?
Do they?