I believe it does. I enjoy the games collections of many famous players.
Does Silman's games method work?
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Are there even 'tens of thousands' of master games recorded to PGN?
Jan 30, 2015
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kleelof wrote:
check out chessbase. there's at least 1 million.
Are there even 'tens of thousands' of master games recorded to PGN?
Nekhemevich wrote:
kleelof wrote:
Are there even 'tens of thousands' of master games recorded to PGN?
check out chessbase. there's at least 1 million.
All masters games?
Nekhemevich wrote:
kleelof wrote:
check out chessbase. there's at least 1 million.
What about work? How am I supposed to go through so many master games with work getting in the way.
Jan 30, 2015
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kleelof wrote:
Nekhemevich wrote:
kleelof wrote:
Are there even 'tens of thousands' of master games recorded to PGN?
check out chessbase. there's at least 1 million.
All masters games?
In my larger database of games, there are almost 900,000 games with players listed 2300+. There are likely some duplicates and a number of rapid/blitz games in there too.
My smaller database, of newer games, has over 100,000 games that meet the same critera. I think it would be pretty easy to get tens of thousands of master games.
Going over them, is another story. That depends on how you do it and how fast will still give any benefit.
AaronGo wrote:
Nekhemevich wrote:
kleelof wrote:
check out chessbase. there's at least 1 million.
What about work? How am I supposed to go through so many master games with work getting in the way.
Funny you should ask.
A few years ago I wrote this software for a client that would play sublimal videos on your computer desktop. It would allow you to continue doing anything you want on your computer but the desktop had a very-very dim video playing.
Last year I started in on an application that does this for chess games/puzzles. You can feed it a PGN, set a few parameters and it plays out the games in a low visibility overlay on your desktop.
My real work keeps me away from it.
If anyone here likes to dabble in C# and would like to look at finishing it, let me know. It just needs work on loading and organizing PGNs as well as settings like move speed and such. All pretty simple stuff.
kleelof wrote:
Are there even 'tens of thousands' of master games recorded to PGN?
Chesstempo has 1,488,575 games where both players are at least 2200.
Sep 11, 2022
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lesperance wrote:
In one of his posts, International Master Jeremy Silman states that, to become a strong player, one has to play through tens of thousands of master chess games quickly. Has anyone tried this method? Did it work for you?
I'm looking for a link to this post. Who can help me?
Sep 11, 2022
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Ziryab wrote:
lesperance wrote:
In one of his posts, International Master Jeremy Silman states that, to become a strong player, one has to play through tens of thousands of master chess games quickly. Has anyone tried this method? Did it work for you?
I'm looking for a link to this post. Who can help me?
I think it may have been mentioned in one of his books.
Sep 11, 2022
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Ziryab wrote:
lesperance wrote:
In one of his posts, International Master Jeremy Silman states that, to become a strong player, one has to play through tens of thousands of master chess games quickly. Has anyone tried this method? Did it work for you?
I'm looking for a link to this post. Who can help me?
Is it these?
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-point-of-studying-master-games-part-one
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-point-of-studying-master-games-part-two
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-point-of-studying-master-games-pt-3
In one of his posts, International Master Jeremy Silman states that, to become a strong player, one has to play through tens of thousands of master chess games quickly. Has anyone tried this method? Did it work for you?