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Subject: Re: Watching == training?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 02:20:53 07/12/02

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On July 12, 2002 at 04:46:13, Vladimir Medvedev wrote:

>Last months I spend much time watching how my chess engine plays blitz against
>other programs. I also have seen many blitz and lighting games between strongest
>engines (GambitTiger, DeepFritz etc.) Now I notice unexpected improvement in my
>own blitz strength both agains humans and computers (may be, up to 50 or even 75
>ELO). Very funny for me, because I did not studying chess or analyzing much more
>than usually.
>
>What do you think - can only watching (not analyzing!) games of strong players
>improve somebody's strength? I have read somewhere that similar methods are used
>in some sport games like tennis, tabletennis or volley-ball: some kind of
>"muscle memory" is stimulated when sportsman sits on the bench and looks at
>flying ball trying to predict its trajectory.

You're training your neural net.

Russell



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