Chessqueen wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 7:32 am
lkaufman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 7:04 am
carldaman wrote: ↑Sat Aug 01, 2020 5:44 am
My theory is that FIDE Elo inflation eventually trickles up toward the top echelon, and the 2200 human of today could indeed be uninflated and much stronger than the counterpart of 20-30 years ago, when there was inflation being fed into the system through the very same 2000-2200 FIDE lower layer, with those players getting FIDE ratings based on only peak (and not average) performances.
Speaking of FIDE rating inflation, it appears to me that it has slowed down during the past decade.
That's also my theory, and it's clear that FIDE ratings have not been inflating in the last few years even at the top. I am convinced (as you are) that 2200 FIDE players today are indeed stronger than 30 years ago, the question is how much stronger? I've dropped about 200 elo during that period, and while some of it is probably due to this deflation, I don't claim to be as strong now at age 72 as I was 30 years ago (or more). Maybe half is aging and half is deflation?
Larry you are a very strong player for your age 72, https://www.denkerchess.com/wp-content/ ... ndings.pdf who seems to be the strongest of this tournament this year ? ==>
https://new.uschess.org/senior
Here is a game between Stockfish at Depth 11 versus Komodo13.3 at Depth 11 which is Skill = 24 Stockfish was running out of time and lost on time
[Event "Blitz:10'+5sec vs Skill 24""]
[Site "MyTown"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Komodo 13.3 64-bit"]
[Black "Stockfish"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]
{128MB, Shredder8.ctg} 1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 b6 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. Qc2 Bb4 6. e3
O-O 7. Bd3 c5 8. a3 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Bxf3 10. gxf3 g6 11. d5 e5 12. e4 Qe7 13. Bg5
Qd6 14. Rg1 Re8 15. Qd2 Nh5 16. Rg4 Kh8 17. O-O-O f6 18. Be3 Qe7 19. Bh6 a6 20.
Bc2 d6 21. Ba4 Rg8 22. Bc6 Ra7 23. Kb2 Rc8 24. Ba4 Nd7 25. Bc6 b5 26. cxb5 Nb6
27. Qe2 axb5 28. Qxb5 Rb8 29. Kc2 Rxa3 30. Rb1 Qa7 31. Kd1 Ra5 32. Qd3 Nc4 33.
Rxb8+ Qxb8 34. Qc2 g5 35. Ke2 Ra1 36. Ba4 Rb1 37. h4 Nf4+ 38. Rxf4
1-0
This is why trapping the Queen does not work
[pgn][Event "Blitz:10'+5sec vs Skill 24"]
[Site "MyTown"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Shredder 8"]
[Black "Chess, Queen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[PlyCount "81"]
[TimeControl "600+5"]
{128MB, Shredder8.ctg} 1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4 b6 4. Nc3 Bb7 5. Qc2 Bb4 6. e3
O-O 7. Bd3 c5 8. a3 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 Bxf3 10. gxf3 g6 11. d5 e5 12. e4 Qe7 13. Bg5
Qd6 14. Rg1 Re8 15. Qd2 Nh5 16. Rg4 Kh8 17. O-O-O f6 18. Be3 Qe7 19. Bh6 a6 20.
Bc2 d6 21. Ba4 Rg8 22. Bc6 Ra7 23. Kb2 Rc8 24. Ba4 Nd7 25. Bc6 b5 26. cxb5 Nb6
27. Qe2 axb5 28. Qxb5 Rb8 29. Kc2 Rxa3 30. Rb1 Qa7 31. Kd1 Ra5 32. Qd3 Nc4 33.
Rxb8+ Qxb8 34. Qc2 g5 35. Ke2 Ra1 36. Ba4 Rb1 37. h4 Nf4+ 38. Rxf4 Rb2 39. Rxf6
Rxc2+ 40. Bxc2 Qb2 41. Rf8# 1-0[/pgn]