Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 07:32:14 07/12/02
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On July 12, 2002 at 08:11:58, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >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. The key to strong play is learning how to calculate well. What you describe will help little in this regard. > >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. Only very basic things. A very weak player will improve this way up to a point, but it won't make him into a strong player. There is no avoiding the hard work it takes to become strong. > >I use Kramnik-games because I also work my way through Khalifman's books on >1.Nf3. > >Odd Gunnar
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