Originally posted by ShinidokiYou see my point. That would never work against a true B class player. Consider Game 1840336 for example.
2. Kf2??
Originally posted by exigentskySix is just too small a sample size. Difficult to draw any conclusions. Maybe after a few hundred games you can draw a meaningful comparison.
I've played about 6 games on Playchess.com and oddly enough, 4 of them started with d4, one of them started with Nf3 and then d4 and the last one started with e4. Has it just been my luck or are Queen's Pawn openings much more popular there.
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Originally posted by buddy2Half of the top GMs in the US are immigrants from Europe, but the vast majority of incompetent players were born here. You've missed the point, and confused matters with erroneous data.
But half the American chess players are emigrants from Europe so that further confuses the issue.
Originally posted by buddy2Everyone immigrated from somewhere one point in time.
My blitz ratings show ICC and FICS lowest and playchess.com highest. That's been over approximately three years, so I would assume the competitions tougher at ICC and FICS. Besides theres lots of europeans on ICC and FICS so it's difficult to sort out who's better. Obviously, at the highest level, the Europeans are going to have an edge because chess is bi ...[text shortened]... half the American chess players are emigrants from Europe so that further confuses the issue.
Plus there are lots of other people besides european in Usa as well as canada. Look at the ethnic distrubtion.
emigrant / immigrant
Emigrant is a noun that means one who leaves one's native country to settle in another: “The emigrants spent four weeks aboard ship before landing in Los Angeles.” Immigrant is a noun that means one who enters and settles in a new country: “Most of the immigrants easily found jobs.” One emigrates from a place; one immigrates to another.
I guess the key word is "from".
Originally posted by buddy2Either way it still works.
emigrant / immigrant
Emigrant is a noun that means one who leaves one's native country to settle in another: “The emigrants spent four weeks aboard ship before landing in Los Angeles.” Immigrant is a noun that means one who enters and settles in a new country: “Most of the immigrants easily found jobs.” One emigrates from a place; one immigrates to another.
I guess the key word is "from".
Maybe not you or your parents, but their parents or their parents parents etc...
Originally posted by buddy2One is an emigrant while leaving, but an immigrant once settled in the new country. Hence:
emigrant / immigrant
One emigrates from a place; one immigrates to another.
I guess the key word is "from".
Originally posted by Wulebgr
Half of the top GMs in the US are immigrants from Europe,