Author: Jens Kahlenberg
Date: 04:02:15 07/10/03
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On July 10, 2003 at 06:27:07, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >Perhaps I was didn't express my goal as I should have. > >While my ultimate goal is to teach my chess engine to play good chess, I cannot >achieve this without understanding myself as a human player the modern chess >play. Therefor the need for books to study. > I guess that Watson's "Secrets ..." won't help you in teaching your engine, but it will help you in understanding current GM practice a lot. Watson and Dorfman have nearly totally different viewpoints, so Watson's "review" might be a bit coloured by emotions (e.g. "... with his Mostly Inapplicable Pedagogical Oberservations"). Watson is IMHO not implementable, but Dorfman might be. Here's a link to a more uncomitted review: http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review313.pdf To summarize, teach Watson to yourself and teach Dorfman to your engine ;-) Best Regards, Jens >I have looked for references on the book you mentioned, I have found a review of >GM John Watson which ends with : > >"I have no doubt that Dorfman is a good teacher/trainer, but people with a >particular skill do not always write good books. Unless you're looking for “The >Lightly Annotated Games of Dorfman With His Mostly Inapplicable Pedagogical >Observations”, you should stay away from this book. Perhaps his recently >released follow-up will be better, but for that to be true he would have to have >brought himself down to earth, and to have widened his base of examples." > >(full review here : >http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews/jw_method_in_chess.html) > >Maybe if it doesn't work for Mr. Watson it would work for me but I wouldn't bet >for it. > >Andrei
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