Very well explained. Agree about the usefulness of games where the players' ratings are a mismatch. Do you have a way to find these? (Please don't say Chessbase). Look forward to future columns.
Without using ChessBase it will require a bit more of a manual search but here's one way to do it: Go to the "events" page on Chess.com (https://www.chess.com/events) and click through the various tournaments in the list. Usually the first round or two in "Open" events will have a rating mismatch between the players. Here's one example from a quick look: https://www.chess.com/events/2023-calvia-amateur-open/games. If you pick round 1 and then look at the first few games then you'll see a 500-point rating gap on the top boards. This can also be done using the "broadcast" page on lichess (https://lichess.org/broadcast).
Very well explained. Agree about the usefulness of games where the players' ratings are a mismatch. Do you have a way to find these? (Please don't say Chessbase). Look forward to future columns.
Without using ChessBase it will require a bit more of a manual search but here's one way to do it: Go to the "events" page on Chess.com (https://www.chess.com/events) and click through the various tournaments in the list. Usually the first round or two in "Open" events will have a rating mismatch between the players. Here's one example from a quick look: https://www.chess.com/events/2023-calvia-amateur-open/games. If you pick round 1 and then look at the first few games then you'll see a 500-point rating gap on the top boards. This can also be done using the "broadcast" page on lichess (https://lichess.org/broadcast).
Thanks very much, appreciate the response!