Author: Mark Young
Date: 04:57:24 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? I remember reading a study some years ago. It was a small study, but interesting. They took 20 women who never played chess before, gave 10 of them chess computers the other 10 had none. I don't remember the all the details but the women who used computer to help train improved much faster then the women without computers. It seems to help much more then reading books or playing very weak players alone.
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