Author: Omid David
Date: 03:43:47 07/12/02
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On July 11, 2002 at 18:24:55, John Reynolds wrote: > > > 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? As someone who has played competitive chess for 15 years, and is a computer-chess programmer for a few years I can only advise you "Forget about computers!". The best way to improve your chess skills is the classical way of reading chess books, and participating in tournaments (not online!). Computers can also help in improving your tactical skill, but they won't have any contribution in improving your positional skill. To improve your positional understanding skills, you'd better read commented games played by Botvinik, Smyslov, Capablanca, etc. And don't jump into computer analysis of Kasparov's games!
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