Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:46:50 02/10/00
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On February 10, 2000 at 04:41:32, Alvaro Polo wrote: >I agree with everything except that they can improve the play of most people. I >believe that the play of most people is unimprovable by any means, after some >years of practice. Of course there will always be exceptions, and possibly you >can improve a little through titanic efforts, but generally speaking, my >experience and the experience of most chessplayers that I know is that you don't >improve significantly no matter what you try. I started playing against a weak computer when I was in high school, back when a weak computer meant a really really weak computer. I immediately discovered that if I left a piece en-prise, that the computer would take it, and my game would disintegrate. This also happened if I dropped an important pawn early on. The people I had been playing up until this time were too weak to punish me for doing this, but the computer didn't miss this kind of stuff. I also learned about forks, pinned pieces, and simple attacking themes like winning on the e-file when the opponent is too slow castling. I improved very rapidly by simply playing against this dumb computer until I could beat the tar out of it. I think that anybody could do this. I don't know what the average person gains by playing against a modern program at full strength, but I still learn something when I play against them, even though I'm not very strong. I'm convinced that if I actually cared about playing chess, that I could lever myself up a class by playing strong programs often. So I think my statement is true. bruce
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