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Playing Under a 2.0 in the Near Future

Posted By: Henrik Bukkjaer
Date: Wednesday, 20 February 2013, at 2:14 p.m.

In Response To: Playing Under a 2.0 in the Near Future (Stick)

Stick, don't get me wrong: If you can go under 2.0 avg under the conditions you outline, I think it is very impressive! And I hope you'll give it a go :-)

But to say that is "Playing under a 2.0" as general as the title says, I think is stretching it!

You list so many conditions that seem both artificial and vastly improving on the PR at the same time. NKaz touched many of these:

- Playing on a PC (as opposed to tactile board and checkers)
- Playing vs. a bot at a known level (as opposed to face various humans)
- Playing ONLY when you feel like it (start and stop at times you don't have to specify in advance)
- Getting results of the games during the session (emphasize the point above, you will know when to bring an end to a session)
- Playing only moneygames (as opposed to matches of varying length as you do over a string of tournaments)
- Playing without a clock (in real life, you cannot take as long as you wish to, and even take breaks in the middle of a game)
- Getting to pick rollouts (not even clearly defined how - but "two-pass" analysis always tend to bring down the PR (all that's not an error on the first pass goes through, and then we take away some of the errors on the second pass).
- Playing in a very comfortable and precise setting (vs. playing different boards, lights, directions, venues, opposition speeds, etc.)
- Playing without a live proctor (or live spectators)

So, all in all, it would be a tremendous feat if you accomplish what you line up here, no doubt about it, but it would in my humble opinion still leave us with the original question open: "Can anyone play under a 2.0?"

Certainly, I feel the PR will swing A LOT as a result of all the above factors. I wouldn't bet against you, especially not if the total bet gets to be 6 figures in your favor.

I'd be interested to hear what you think would be the PR target should be for you to beat, if the conditions were those I have outlined above, instead of your in my view more artificial ones?

All the best of luck to you!

Cheers,
Henrik

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