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Subject: Re: Can I become a Chessmaster by Playing very Strong Engines?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 23:02:38 07/11/02

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On July 11, 2002 at 18:24:55, John Reynolds wrote:

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>   It has been said that a player must play and beat  Masters to become a
>Master. If that statement is true, can I become master strength by simply
>playing computers alone without any Human interaction? There is a player that I
>know, who was unrated and never played in any tournaments, all this guy did was
>play strong chess computers (standalone), anyway when this guy played in his
>first tournament he came out with a 2265 rating after 15 rated games!!. Maybe he
>had extrodinary talent, or perhaps playing against Programs can make one very
>strong?

There are 4 million copies of ChessMaster sold world-wide.

There are 500 GM's world-wide.

I guess that playing against a computer is not going to do it, or we would have
more than 500 GM's popping about.




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