David Fotland wrote: > Professional
players can do this 100 moves from the end of the game and typically be within a point or 2 of the final score.
Nice myth, but I doubt it. Rather very strongly it depends on the kind of position. In some kinds of early middle game positions (150 to 200 moves before the end), I can also make a +-3 points positional judgement (this does, OC, not mean I could read all the variations). In most kinds of middle game positions, it is much tougher though.
When my time allows it in important tournament games, I count the result before the last pass to prevent cheating during the counting or the necessiety to reconfirm if the counting is performed faster than one can follow it visually.
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