Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 07:25:05 06/03/98
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On June 02, 1998 at 23:50:00, Komputer Korner wrote: >Admit it Fernando, you are addicted. Hi KK: Of course I am, but you know, adicts are all the time blaming his adiction. tht's my case. and you are right. jyust plkay is not enough. In fact, after rading your briefs in WCCR I bought both Chess strategy and Mentor and I have had a good time looking how bad a player am I, no more than 2200 in my best days and around 2000 in the bads. It has been shocking to see how far of real chess vision i am, specially with Strategy. Oh, my God, i suppose I will keep purchasing these things... Cheers Fernando Computer chess is more exciting now >than ever with new features being incorporated all the time in a number >of programs. To add to all the new features, every program plays >differently and thus has it's own style. My current fascination is >watching Crafty-Comet matches in Winboard. I simply doubleclick the >desktop shortcut to Winboard and sit back and watch. I believe this is >the best way to learn chess if you don't have a human master for a >personal teacher and you have read all the chess books. Watching 2 >strong programs play chess, whether it is Fritz versus Hiarcs vs Junior >in the Fritz GUI or the many different free programs playing in >Winboard, is fascinating and does definitely help you to improve your >understanding of chess. Positional chess understanding of the top micros >has been underestimated. I believe it is at least at the 2300 level. If >you are rated under 2000 and most of us are, you can learn positional >chess from computer programs. Of course we all can learn from their >tactical prowess as well. So, Fernando you are looking at it the wrong >way when you say that you are bored with getting beaten by them. If you >had a human IM as your persoanal trainer, would you say you were bored >with him because he beats you all the time? The lazy way to improve >chess is just playing against them. You have to analyze your defeats. As >well you have to study things like the isolated d pawn, passed pawns, >tactical play in different openings you play, the play of the 2 >bishops,.......etc. There are many things to do to improve your game but >it is hard work. Simply playing against them isn't enough.
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