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bigpoison
nola2172 wrote:

While it is certainly possibly to play a ton of games at once, I think there is a fairly strong inverse correlation between number of active games and in-game playing strength.  For instance, to use Kacparov as an example (since he has commented on here quite often), his online chess rating is 2027 while his FIDE rating is 2203.  I have a USCF rating around 1600 (though I have not played OTB in a while) but an online chess rating of 2086 right now.  However, I only have a handful of games that I play at a time, so I can sometimes spend 15-20 minutes (or more on a few occasions) figuring out what I want to do.  Thus it is quite possible to play a ton of games, but if you do, then your playing strength will necessarily be reduced in those games.


Will you be playing in the Battle Creek tourney in April?

Kacparov
paul211 wrote:
Kacparov wrote:

Almost a year ago, when I played not many games (never going over 70), I reached a top of 2272. But I couldn't go any higher.


Maybe you need some coaching, or studying the right book, but not playing more games for sure.

Where is you weakness, have you identified it? Opening, middle game and strategic play or the end game?

If you challenge me with an unrated and takeback game and give me 5 games that you have won and 5 losses and 5 draws that you want me to look at to paint a picture of your play I will do so and see if I can help you in anyway.

I have played the game close to 1/2 century and played thousands of games and have on record 20,000+ correspondance games.

Your call.

And when I analyze the 15 games you ask me to look at and if I have no clue on how to help you, I will simply tell you that I am not up to the challenge.

Fair enough?

I will need a week to analyze the 15 games and possibly 2 weeks at the most. 


Sure. Invite will be sent in a moment :)

nuclearturkey
AfafBouardi wrote:

I don't think Kasparov's coach had a Super GM title.  


A completely different situation. And obviously they wouldn't have had "take-back" games, which is rather ridiculous considering that at least about 90% of the time Paul will have much less of an idea whether Kacparov's moves are good than Kacparov himself will.

Anyway, let me know if I'm completely wrong once you start the "lessons" Kacparov.

kenneth67

On the subject of high number of (simultaneous) games - I have been reading Frank Brady's biog of Bobby Fischer (forgive me for introducing him to this thread), and on p.72 :

'"With some idea of getting him into an event worthy of his immense talent, I proposed that he give the most ambitious simultaneous exhibition of all time. The record he would be attempting to break was that set by Swedish Grandmaster Gideon Stahlberg at Buenos Aires in 1941, when the Swede played 400 opponents for 364 wins, 14 draws, and 22 losses. I suggested that Bobby try to go beyond this in number of games played and won. Fischer accepted the challenge at once and proposed to give himself the additional handicap of playing half the games with the black pieces... The Buenos Aires feat had taken 36 hours; Bobby figured that it would take him "5 or 6 hours to complete 75% of all the games and a few more hours to knock off all those that remain." He was supremely confident, and we were both increasingly excited about the project."'

..."The terrible news from Dallas on November 22 caused us to postpone the exhibition (to be held on Nov.27)..."

I just love that nonchalant phrase "knock off", spoken almost as if his opponents were dying victims on a battlefield.

Kacparov

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Atos
nuclearturkey wrote:
AfafBouardi wrote:

I don't think Kasparov's coach had a Super GM title.  


A completely different situation. And obviously they wouldn't have had "take-back" games, which is rather ridiculous considering that at least about 90% of the time Paul will have much less of an idea whether Kacparov's moves are good than Kacparov himself will.

Anyway, let me know if I'm completely wrong once you start the "lessons" Kacparov.


Lol. I am writing a letter to Anand now to offer him coaching.