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> they play chess better than they used to I tend to believe that, given how intensive we train players these days, but are we actually certain that it is the
by rixed 5y ago
> they play chess better than they used to
I tend to believe that, given how intensive we train players these days, but are we actually certain that it is the case? I guess we could ask a chess engine to rate all available games but that would not be terribly convincing because they were playing a different style, against the players of their time (unlike a running competition, you really need two players to play a game of chess).
Also, for some past players we don't have that many games to begin with.
- edanm 5y ago(Context: I'm a very bad chess player, but have been getting into it lately.) I think we're fairly certain that chess players today would beat chess players of the past, in a regular 1 on 1 game. Assuming the old chess players didn't have time to prepare. Chess programs can rate the accuracy of moves, so we can see how accurate past players were. In addition, a lot has been discovered about more correct opening theory - a grandmaster of the past would make many mistakes in the opening that a modern grandmaster would be able to take advantage of, simply because they didn't know those lines.