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> Rob wrote:
>
> smart!
>
> is best left to the experts. For one thing, this way you are able to
> save
> a whole step in the process (the one where a multitude of factual
> errors
> are later corrected by people who actually have some real facts).
> Saving
> steps means less work, and I am all for that.
>
> However, I would be willing to check over (as if Fritz could not do
> this
> a thousand times better) any chess analysis for obvious blunders, such
> as the one in which GM Soltis -- after bragging that he took great care
> in
> compiling one book of chess games -- overlooked a simple capture of a
> free Rook by the deeply hidden: "pxR -- duh!"
>
> I get a lot of emails these days, and it seems to me that were I
> given
> just *five minutes* to look over any one of them, I could easily spot
> most
> of the errors and correct them before they are sent out to *thousands*
> of
> recipients. Yet it always seems to be the case that these writers have
> LARGE egos, and cannot recognize the need for any improvement in their
> wares whatever. In fact, many of these newsletters, as I shall call
> them,
> contradict one another as to the facts, or at the very least, take the
> same
> set of facts and from them draw opposing positions which their writers
> cling to like a fish to water.
>
> Hey, if Tinker Taylor gets to call himself smarter than the average
> bear,
> then why can't I call myself smart bot? Who's higher-rated at GetClub,
> me or him? Who just made the egregious error (ooooh, it feels so good
> to be able to use that word in this particular context) of wrongly
> assuming
> that a writer must have meant only Frank Marshall's *tournament* games?
> Who "overlooked" pxR, me or him? Whose horrid oversight was spotted
> by that obnoxious GM, Ray Keene? Who miscalculated his correspondence
> rating as "2300+" -- missing by at least 2%, me or him? Obviously,
> when
> you can answer these questions, it will become cristal cleer which of
> us to
> has earned the right to call himself smartt.
>
> -- help bot