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Re:New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess by jlittel on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:13PM (#13495290)
Discarding losses on time could plausibly be the bulk of the effect.

I can improve my chess rating in short time controls by a good 50+ points just by reminding myself to move quickly.

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Re:New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess by agarden on Thursday January 26, 2017 @04:29PM (#13495400)
True. Also, people tend to take more time when in losing positions, so it is likely that more of the discarded games than the not-discarded games would have been lost.
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Re:New Study Finds Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Chess by lumpypua on Friday January 27, 2017 @01:23AM (#13498127)
It would be very interesting to see a computer analysis of position strength in the discarded games and seeing, where possible, if the ratios of "likely win" and "likely loss" match the games that were finished.
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