Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:21:24 09/09/05
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I cannot but agree with all the points of your post. I have posted here about that before. And certainly I am not in the list of employees of Chessbase. I have said all that before because I am a mediocre player at his best, so the point of "engine strenght" is for me just moot. Neither I am a guy that gets a kick matching engines vs engines tournaments. I get my modicum of fun just playing them, I mean, playing PC programs AND and SPECIALLY the so called "dedicated units", those marvelous and pretty objects that can be touched, smelt, caressed and that, even better, have the delicasy to be weaker and let a guy like me to collect some points. On the other side of the picture, being as I am and as I told such a mediocre player AND a guy with a real life to live earning a living, writing my books, etc, I have no time and no patience and no resilience and no guts to try to improve my game with any of the currently existent trainning programs, including Chessbase products. They are good, very good, but more for a professional OR a guy with professional ambitions than for an average player. The average player once and again purchase books because he want to improve, that's certain, but once and again he read just to page 5 of "Elemental Endings", once and again solves only up to problem 4 of the book "1.000.000 mates in One to Solve", once and again he purchase expensive database programs that he looks twice and then forgets and once and again empower his wit with tactical or strategial exercizes until the very first he cannot solve. After that he just put it off the blooy program and go fast to a porno site. Certainly we are not Kasparov or some obscure chechenian guy trying -what a madness- to scalate glory trough a board ando some wooden pieces. We are -in chess at least- common folk. So, in order to play more, get more fun and even improve the game "volens-nolens", what we need -average players, I insist- is more petty guis, more attractive ways to train at least some esentials, more verbose comments (perhaps several "persnalities": the agressive bastard that insults us, the pedant, the sycophant, etc), etc. I even would dare to ask a program that from time to time knows to lose a game without asking from us, first, to put it in an special weak level. That's humiliating. My best fernando, average player at his best.
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