Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 05:11:58 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. I've heard about people that have raised their rating by playing through all the game in Informator when they received it without any analysing so this could be the same effect. I try this too this summer, not by watching computer games but I have connected my laptop to the tv-screen and let it run through Kramnik games with 12 moves per minute whenever I sit down for a break. The idea was that you have to collect ideas in middlegame/endgame position just like you do with memorising openings. I use Kramnik-games because I also work my way through Khalifman's books on 1.Nf3. Odd Gunnar
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