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Subject: Re: can GM's learn from programs

Author: José Carlos

Date: 05:36:06 05/22/02

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On May 22, 2002 at 08:08:52, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>On May 22, 2002 at 05:12:17, Terry Ripple wrote:
>
>>On May 21, 2002 at 13:01:14, José Carlos wrote:
>>
>>>On May 21, 2002 at 12:34:39, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>
>>>>On May 21, 2002 at 12:20:52, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On May 21, 2002 at 11:07:46, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On May 21, 2002 at 10:13:29, K. Burcham wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The answer is as simple as clear.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>They can use programs to analyze games with from other GMs
>>>>>>and themselves. They can use it to analyze variations from their
>>>>>>openings preparation with.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>But they can't learn from it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>What about tactically, can a player less than 2400 learn a few tricks from the
>>>>>best programs?
>>>>>
>>>>>Jorge
>>>>
>>>>GMs know tactically more than programs, so you can analyze with them,
>>>>but not learn from them. The computer doesnt 'show' a new pattern concept
>>>>to you. So you don't learn from the computer something. You can learn
>>>>yourself only when analyzing with computers, that's why i say you can't
>>>>learn FROM the computer.
>>>
>>>  I disagree, Vincent. You can learn from the computer. It is the computer that
>>>can't teach you.
>>>  No matter from what, human beings spend the whole life learning. From
>>>everything. You learn geology from stones, zoology from animals, physics from
>>>the planets and stars.
>>>  They don't teach you anything. It's _you_ that observe, make a theory, test it
>>>and draw conclusions. You can do exactly the same from a computer. You play
>>>against it; it wins; you study the game; guess why you lost; play again; maybe
>>>you force the same opening and change a move or a plan... Finally, you draw
>>>conclusions. And your source of information is, in that case, Fritz!!! :)
>>>
>>>  José C.
>>--------------
>>Hi Jose,
>>
>>I think you are very correct with your explanation!
>>
>>Good answer!
>>Regards, Terry
>
>
>I think both are right (as very often) but Vincent Diepeveen means that a
>computer can't help him to understand chess (it's not because a computer show
>you the shortest way to mate in a KBNK endgame that a help you to understand, a
>book or a player "who knows" will do that in better way) and José Carlos means
>that computer can show "new" or "other" things ...
>
>All the difference is between "learn to understand" and "learn to show"
>on this purpose i'm on the same side of Vincent Diepeveen because computer are
>too different from human (short tactical but very accurate view against
>positional and planning view)

  My point was more about _how_ the idea was expressed than about the idea
itself. I made a difference between "learn" and "teach". If I do something for
you can understand without effort, I'm teaching you. If I do nothing to teach
but I have some information, you can still learn, but with your own effort.
  The original question was "can GM's learn from programs?". And I answer yes,
because programs generate information when playing, and a GM can study that
information and learn. But programs can't teach, like a human player can. They
can't do the work for you. That's the difference I point.

  José C.



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