Monthly Archives: October 2006

Working my way through CT-ART

By Steve | Published: October 15, 2006
I asked BlunderProne recently how he was going through the problems in CT-ART. He said he repeated the problems in each level seven times before moving on to the next more difficult level. I started doing the CT-ART problems in the summer, and I’ve adopted BlunderProne’s procedure. By the time I finished the seventh pass on [...]
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Fast and loose with statistics at the world championship?

By Steve | Published: October 4, 2006
Topalov’s manager issued a press release today noting that “out of 5 games – 78% of GM Kramnik’s moves match with the first line of Fritz9.” I do not find it very surprising that, for a high fraction of moves, a strong GM would agree with a strong computer program about which move to play. [...]
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