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Cool tidbit from the post: > For reference, the most improved player is (as of oct 2021) an 11 year old world chess champion from the Ukraine. His rate of impr
by Rauchg 5y ago
Cool tidbit from the post:
> For reference, the most improved player is (as of oct 2021) an 11 year old world chess champion from the Ukraine. His rate of improvement averaged out to 33 points per month over a period of 6 years.
- JimmyAustin 5y agoI’d assume most of that could be attributed to the average 11 year old being significantly smarter than the average 5, but I wonder how sustainable that gain is? Given a large enough cohort that practiced enough, ELO is probably a decent-ish proxy for mental development.
- User23 5y agoThat’s nuts. Does that mean he went from 400 to 2800 in six years? Who is this?
- radicalcentrist 5y agohttps://lichess.org/@/PeshkaCh https://lichess.org/@/PeshkaCh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tykhon_Cherniaiev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tykhon_Cherniaiev