Author: Jorge Pichard
Date: 11:08:51 03/06/01
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On March 06, 2001 at 13:03:45, Peter Berger wrote: >On March 06, 2001 at 07:54:26, Jorge Pichard wrote: > >>My nephew Enrique just turn 9 Sunday and my sister which lives 300 miles away >>from me told me that Enrique has been telling her that he would like to learn >>how to play chess like his uncle. When my sister told me that, I told her that I >>would send him one of my chess program (Nimzo 8) as a gift for his birthday. >>Now I also told her that she should start by getting him a good chess teacher >>who can spend a least 3 hours every saturday, but that he could also pratice >>against Nimzo 8 to improve the opening and middlegame where Nimzo 8 can help him >>improve on his tactics. >> >>PS: Can somebody provide good tips which will help a child to improve his chess >>skills by using Nimzo 8. Please provide step by step intructions so I can >>paste it and email it to my nephews. For instance what features of this >>chessbase product will help him the most etc... >> >>Pichard. > > >It must be nice to see your nephew following your footsteps and wanting to learn >chess . > >I think though that Nimzo is a pretty useless tool here ; the handicap levels >are weakening the program for sure but offer very little fun for a child and I >suspect the explanations of the program are barely understandable . > >Better than any chessprogram would be a chessclub with children of similar age >but that might not be possible . Lessons by strong players are not necessary at >this stage to my experience . > >When it is about chessprograms I am convinced there is _one_ solution : >Chessmaster . > >On my last trip I took Chessmaster with me and fooled around with it a lot ; for >example I had a look at many lessons for beginners and really loved them . > >The Kid's room is cool , too . I wasted a whole evening in the Kid's room >playing rated bullet games against various personalities ( mostly little Josh ) >using the Dog's chesspieces . It was like blindchess for me , pretty good >training :-) > >The commented games give a good idea about competition and the excitement >involved . > >There is a BIG disadvantage though : it is all in English , so useless for a >non-English-speaking child : what a shame !! > >The biggest advantage is that it is very close to a free program ; CM7000 or >CM6000 can be bought for nearly nothing . > Thanks for the advice, I do have an old CM6000 which is collecting dust since I decided not to used it three months ago. I will send him CM6000 instead, and as far as the language barrier, his only problem is that he doesn't know spanish at all, since he was born and raised in the U.S.A., plus Enrique's father is an american and his mother doesn't have anyone in the house to speak spanish with. Pichard. >So if this possiblity is not availlable and the child already learned the basic >rules I think online chess might be more fun than a dull chessprogram . At Yahoo >for example there are many kids playing , and there is also the possibility to >chat with others . > >And ; last but not least : what will _you_ do without your Nimzo 8 copy , >enthusiastic Nimzo fan :-) ? >Cheers. > >pete As far as Nimzo 8 even if it didn't finished with a rating better than Nimzo 7.32 in the SSDF it is still one of the strongest program against Humans opponents. And its performance with my modified parameters shows that it is as strong as Fritz 6e. You asked me what I'll do with my CD of Nimzo 8, I'm going to keep it and wait for the upcoming upgrade of Nimzo 8. Pichard.
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