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Re:Researchers create new classification of chess openings by beyondCritics on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:37PM (#35443238)
They said: >"We also only included players in our analyses that had a rating above 2,000 on the platform Lichess. Total novices could randomly play any opening games, which would skew our analyses," explains Vito D.P. Servedio of the Complexity Science Hub. You said: >I'm also a relative beginner, so I don't have the brain power to learn many openings... So what is your rating?
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Re:Researchers create new classification of chess openings by dragontamer on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @01:39PM (#35443265)
> So what is your rating?

Chess.com 1450-ish. I honestly probably shouldn't even be studying openings at this level, lol.

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Re:Researchers create new classification of chess openings by lupire on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:02PM (#35448332)
That's a huge burn. 2000 is far above "total novice"
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