On Apr 23, 5:50 am, raylopez99 wrote:

bot, have you seen the articles by chess statistician Jeff Sonas on
the greatest champions ever? The research that 'backsolved' GW games
using computers to show which GMs made the fewest errors (both in
winning AND in losing games)? That showed Capa (and Lasker) and
Kasparov (and Karpov) and Fischer (and Petrosian) to be the greatest
players ever?

No, I haven't seen it.

Google it. Here,http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2409

I recently downloaded all four of these articles and am
just beginning to read the first of them. I noticed right
off the same flaw pointed out by David Richerby: the
loony assumption that inactivity equates to a loss in
playing strength.

At one time I became frustrated that my rating was
no longer increasing, despite considerable playing
activity. My solution was to stop playing so much and
instead, spend more time studying. The result was an
improvement, but one which did not show up as quickly
as I would have hoped in the rating numbers. (In fact,
it wasn't until 1971 that I was finally able to break the
2750 level... .) ;D

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