On Apr 24, 3:56 am, David Richerby
wrote:
raylopez99 wrote:
Curious why you think Sonas formulae are flawed (if that's what you
meant).

That is what I meant. They're flawed because they assume that
inactivity results in weakening. Yet most players will take some time
off before an important match or tournament, both to rest and to
study. Sonas's formulae penalize them for doing this even though two
players who take a month off to play a private training match will
inevitably emerge stronger rather than weaker.

Dave.

--
David Richerby Incredible Tool (TM): it's like awww.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ handy household tool but it'll blow
your mind!

Thanks for that clarification Dave.

See also this article from late last year, which deserves a long hard
look, and which I've made into a seperate post, claiming that Capa,
Kramnik, Karpov and Kasparov (in that order) were the greatest chess
players ever:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3455

I was thinking of this article not the Sonas article when I posted in
this thread.

The above article makes sense to me, if you value "pure play", that
is, play the board, not the man, as opposed to a Tal psychological
tactic of playing the man, not the board, and winning that way.

RL