Author: Uri Blass
Date: 04:43:33 08/25/01
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On August 25, 2001 at 00:25:27, Christophe Theron wrote: >On August 24, 2001 at 13:47:33, Thorsten Czub wrote: > >>On August 24, 2001 at 13:44:53, Christophe Theron wrote: >>>So I'll do as I always do after a big tournament: I'll NOT study closely the >>>lost games (unless I can see a gross mistake by quickly browsing thru the games) >>>and keep on working as I do normally. >>> >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >>after paris, you were that disapointed that you worked very hard. >>as a result your program developed into a very very strong program. >> >>do you remember ? > > > >Yes. After Paris I have started to STOP relying on my personal feelings about >how my program should play. > >I have started to build objective tools (in which my subjectivity could not >influence) to evaluate my program and evaluate if changes were good or not. > >So since early 1998 I do not study closely lost games anymore, unless I can see >a clear repeated pattern in these losses. > >Since I have started to use this method, my program has dramatically improved. >So I do not see any reason to return to the old way of doing it. > >That's why I'm not going to give any particular importance to the losses that >happened during this WMCCC. That's my usual way of handling this... I believe that looking at games may be productive not for deciding about new changes but for getting new ideas for changes. You can continue to use your objective tool in order to decide if the ideas are good or bad. Uri
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