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Subject: Re: It's a draw! Good defense Rebel!

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 12:38:32 01/03/01

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On January 03, 2001 at 15:30:20, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On January 03, 2001 at 14:13:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I expected a GM to be better in tactics.
>>It leads to the question if programs can teach humans to be better in tactics >by giving them the right exercises to solve.
>>
>
>
>Great idea!
>
>I bet it would be easier to devise a program to target tactical exercises at a
>human's weaknesses, based on the human's performance on past exercises, than to
>write a whole chess program from scratch.
>
>Many people have done the latter, so maybe it's time for somebody to do the
>former?  I'd buy it!

I think the new Fritz 6b GUI has made a simple attempt to do this.  It has some
new functions that create "Mate training" and "Tactics training".  They appear
to be in a very simple form right now and I don't have any instructions on how
it works.  I belive this can be the first step in doing exactly what you
mention.
Jim



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