Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 20:11:16 01/08/01
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On January 08, 2001 at 19:32:21, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On January 08, 2001 at 18:29:39, stuart taylor wrote: > >>On January 08, 2001 at 17:23:52, David Wilke wrote: >> >>>On January 08, 2001 at 03:49:05, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>>On January 07, 2001 at 19:18:45, Cliff Sears wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi! >>>>> >>>>>I would just like to know what computer chess program people think is best for a >>>>>low rated player to improve his chess with, I.e., which program is best for >>>>>training, studying and learning from? >>>> >>>>I think you'd do just fine repeately beating the hell out of some old weak unit >>>>like a Chess Challenger 7. You can pick up positional niceties by reading >>>>books. But if you are a 1200 player, you are probably making tactical mistakes, >>>>and you'd gain a lot just by getting whacked in the forehead whenever you drop a >>>>pawn. Any computer can do this for you, but you want one that you can clobber >>>>if you *don't* drop pawns. >>>> >>>>bruce >>> >>>Yes, possibly a weakened GNUChess? Or weakened Crafty? Don't go to something as >>>powerful as Rebel Tiger or Fritz. you learn nothing other than how to get beat >>>in under 25 moves. >> >>I suppose It's especially beneficial to practice against a program which only >>picks you up on simple tactical errors which you can grasp at the momment, and >>that as soon as you are aware and allert enough, you have chances of winning. >> I thought that chess master provides a stage by stage level increase which is >>just perfect, but I havn't seen it yet myself. I'm thinking of getting it, >>expecting to find this very feature. But if it is NOT that well designed I'd >>like to know now, if someone can correct me. >>S.Taylor > >I've never used the weakened opponents in Chessmaster, so please keep that in >mind when evaluating what I said. > >That stuff may be very good, I don't know. But I know that playing endless >games against a cheesy microprocessor machine will improve your chess, because >that's what I did. I'm not a great player, but in the early 80's I got out of >class D pretty quickly by playing weak machines. > >bruce I agree with you. I did the same when I was a class C player, I used to practice a lot of games against Sargon 5 and Chessmaster 3000, and it helped me to improve my chess and I made to the Expert Level, 2100+ in a few years. Laurence
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