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Can BG answer a similar question?

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Tuesday, 20 March 2012, at 4:40 p.m.

In Response To: Software to detect cheating in Chess (Michael Petch)

He has also discovered that the way people play has evolved. According to his analysis, the player now ranked No. 40 in the world plays as well as Anatoly Karpov did in the 1970s, when he was world champion and was described as a machine. (quote from the article)

The Heinrich database (combined with Iancho's ratings) probably holds the answer.

Messages In This Thread

• Software to detect cheating in Chess
  Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 20 March 2012, at 8:42 a.m.
  • Software to detect cheating in Chess
    Daniel Murphy -- Tuesday, 20 March 2012, at 2:56 p.m.
    • Software to detect cheating in Chess
      Stick -- Tuesday, 20 March 2012, at 3:55 p.m.
  • Can BG answer a similar question?
    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 20 March 2012, at 4:40 p.m.
    • Can BG answer a similar question?
      Timothy Chow -- Friday, 30 March 2012, at 12:16 a.m.
  • Software to detect cheating in Chess
    mikeg -- Thursday, 22 March 2012, at 11:05 a.m.