Dear Chess Friends in Canada:
With the blessing of Canadian Open organizer David Cohen, and Hugh Brodie of CANbase (http://canbase.fqechecs.qc.ca/canbaseii.htm), I'm appealing for fellow players to type in their games in PGN format, and send the game files to David at 2011CanadianOpen AT canadianchess.info (substitute @ sign for AT---note this was the correspondence e-mail for the tournament itself).
To date we have 339 games from the Open section and some games from the others, including all games of all players with 6.0 or better in the Open. You may look up those files to see which of your games we already have at
http://www.canadianchess.info/2011canadianopen/results
Why the appeal? For one, David and Hugh were going to take months to enter as many games by hand as they could muster---already David has done forty and it's as much as CANbase had last year. But a little effort from you will save them a lot of time and trouble!
For two, I would like please to make this my first "Intrinsic Ratings" run of an entire large Swiss tournament. Some spot-runs since the event suggest that my model's results will be faithful to players' FIDE ratings (by which it is calibrated), and distributional tests indicate that my model is reflecting over 85% of chess skill. I have Rybka 3 already whirring away on the top 28 finishers' games, in 50-PV mode which no other chess study has done. This research has recently been featured on the social-science blogs "Marginal Revolution" and "Freakonomics":
http://marginalrevolution.com/margin...over-time.html
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/...tter-at-chess/
plus Susan Polgar published my Canadian Open report at
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2011...ken-regan.html
Finally my "Fidelity" anti-cheating website is http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/ Let me hasten to add that my work has more-general positive uses: for player training, indexing chess ratings to the same standard, effect of tournament conditions and time controls, historical comparisons, and perhaps more. My professional website as a computer scientist (Associate Professor, University at Buffalo (SUNY)) is http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/ and also has materials of general interest, plus I co-manage one of the major Math/CS blogs at http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/
A followup post in this thread will give particular tips and directions for PGN game entry. Please also pass on this request.
Sincerely and thanks,
your fellow competitor IM Ken Regan (in Buffalo)
With the blessing of Canadian Open organizer David Cohen, and Hugh Brodie of CANbase (http://canbase.fqechecs.qc.ca/canbaseii.htm), I'm appealing for fellow players to type in their games in PGN format, and send the game files to David at 2011CanadianOpen AT canadianchess.info (substitute @ sign for AT---note this was the correspondence e-mail for the tournament itself).
To date we have 339 games from the Open section and some games from the others, including all games of all players with 6.0 or better in the Open. You may look up those files to see which of your games we already have at
http://www.canadianchess.info/2011canadianopen/results
Why the appeal? For one, David and Hugh were going to take months to enter as many games by hand as they could muster---already David has done forty and it's as much as CANbase had last year. But a little effort from you will save them a lot of time and trouble!
For two, I would like please to make this my first "Intrinsic Ratings" run of an entire large Swiss tournament. Some spot-runs since the event suggest that my model's results will be faithful to players' FIDE ratings (by which it is calibrated), and distributional tests indicate that my model is reflecting over 85% of chess skill. I have Rybka 3 already whirring away on the top 28 finishers' games, in 50-PV mode which no other chess study has done. This research has recently been featured on the social-science blogs "Marginal Revolution" and "Freakonomics":
http://marginalrevolution.com/margin...over-time.html
http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/08/...tter-at-chess/
plus Susan Polgar published my Canadian Open report at
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2011...ken-regan.html
Finally my "Fidelity" anti-cheating website is http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/chess/fidelity/ Let me hasten to add that my work has more-general positive uses: for player training, indexing chess ratings to the same standard, effect of tournament conditions and time controls, historical comparisons, and perhaps more. My professional website as a computer scientist (Associate Professor, University at Buffalo (SUNY)) is http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/ and also has materials of general interest, plus I co-manage one of the major Math/CS blogs at http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/
A followup post in this thread will give particular tips and directions for PGN game entry. Please also pass on this request.
Sincerely and thanks,
your fellow competitor IM Ken Regan (in Buffalo)
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