Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
by anamexis on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @02:04PM
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I'm talking about daily/correspondence games.
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Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
by Retric on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @03:40PM
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Ok, 1-2 blunders are more believable in that context, and uhh ouch. Anyway, it’s still an extreme edge case which says nothing about most games.
Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
by anamexis on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @03:58PM
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My point was that it's not an extreme edge case, it's quite common, even at the 700-1000 chess.com ELO level.
Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
by Retric on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:04PM
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Someone dying in a car accident is frequent/common as in happening several times a day, but it’s still an extreme edge case in terms of the average trip.
If we’re talking about the average game you simply need to look at all time controls to get an accurate understanding not pick an uncommon example and arbitrarily suggest it’s representative of the general case.
Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
by anamexis on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @05:35PM
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Do you have better data, or are you just being an asshole?
Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
by Retric on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:52PM
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> Do you have better data, or are you just being an asshole?
Last I checked, 55% of games on chess.com are 5 minutes or less if that’s what you’re asking. But at this point I’m just done with this conversation.
Also, average account ELO was ~800 not sure if that’s active or just not banned.
Re:Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy
by anamexis on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @07:08PM
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I meant number of blunders per game at low ELOs. I stand by my estimation that even at 800, even a 5 minute game would have a median blunder count of 1 or 2. Which is hardly a constant stream of blunders, which is what I was trying to point out.