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Fritzlein
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Re: When Grandmasters Blunder
« Reply #1 on: Mar 1st, 2015, 8:38am » |
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Fascinating. I'm astonished that patzers like myself blunder so seldom. I would have expected my own blunder rate to be much higher, based on my rating. I wonder what percentage of wins are attributable to gradually outplaying the opponent as opposed to blundering less often and/or less badly.
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Re: When Grandmasters Blunder
« Reply #2 on: Mar 1st, 2015, 6:21pm » |
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1% doesn't seem so small when considering the length of a chess game. Given 40 moves for each player, that means around half of all grandmaster games contain a multiple-pawn blunder. That's significantly more common than I would previously have guessed.
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Re: When Grandmasters Blunder
« Reply #3 on: Mar 2nd, 2015, 2:31pm » |
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I agree, clyring. I'm surprised on both ends of the curve, i.e. surprised grandmasters blunder so often as much as I am surprised that patzers like me blunder so seldom. Thus my wondering how much of a typical Elo advantage is attributable to subtly outplaying the opponent as opposed to having a lower blunder rate.
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Re: When Grandmasters Blunder
« Reply #4 on: Apr 12th, 2015, 9:46pm » |
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And no one commented on what they named their analysis cluster? (It's in the URL above)
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