Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:21:07 10/30/04
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On October 29, 2004 at 17:36:40, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >On October 29, 2004 at 09:25:50, Tony Petters wrote: > >> >>A Mature Market means the product no longer has significant improvements, so >>there is no point in getting involved in it commercially. An example would be >>wordprocessors. >> >>We all use to fight tooth and nail on rgcc and ccc to get what we want on new >>software releases, now it seems the vast majority have been added, even test >>suites. >> >>It seems with all the great great software available both commercially and >>amateur that there is little room for improvement left. >> >>For example Fritz has virtually every function a person could ever dream of and >>the graphics are certainly adequate for play. >> >>Perhaps, some of you have an opinion on this. >> >>Cordially > >Almost. The computer provides an opponent strong enough for anyone, as well as >good analysis. However, there is one thing that the computer is very bad at: >teaching humans how to play better chess. A computer can't say: I think white >should play on the queenside so as to shatter the black pawnstructure. It can't >say: Black shouldn't take this pawn because he will have to wade through a >tactical melee for the next 30 moves. I do not think that it is what most humans need to get better in chess. look at the following game from the women olympiad Black missed a simple fork White later missed a mate in 1 or found the only move that lose because of mate in 1 and there were more mistakes(for example black could win a piece by b5 Bb3 c4 instead of trading bishops). I do not think that positional explanations is very important for these players. They need to be stronger in tactics. Usually countries send good players to the olympiad and when japan and virgin island do not do it for some reason you can see the result. [Event "Calvia ol (Women)"] [Site "Mallorca (Spain)"] [Date "2004.10.19"] [Round "5.42"] [White "Babic, Gail"] [Black "Matsou, Akemi"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B52"] [PlyCount "50"] [EventDate "2004.10.15"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Nc3 a6 5. Ba4 Nf6 6. e5 dxe5 7. Nxe5 Bxa4 8. Nxa4 g6 9. Nxc5 Ra7 10. d4 b6 11. Ncd3 Bg7 12. Qf3 O-O 13. O-O Nbd7 14. Nc6 Qa8 15. Nxa7 Qxa7 16. Re1 Re8 17. b3 Qc7 18. c4 Nh5 19. Bb2 Qd6 20. Re4 Nb8 21. d5 Bxb2 22. Nxb2 Nf6 23. Rf4 Qe5 24. Rb1 Nbd7 25. Nd1 Qe1# 0-1 Uri
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