Author: John Watson
Date: 14:16:30 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 noticed something similar myself recently. I've watched, oh, 500 or so games my engine has played on FICS in the last couple of weeks. The other night I was playing some games myself and there were several occasions where I *recognized* a position I'd seen that was similar to a position I've seen my engine play. The key I think is that I recognized the position AND I remembered the move the computer made. That combination led me down a different avenue of analysis than I would have done if I hadn't recognized the pattern. I think it is generally agreed that pattern recognition is a big part of playing chess. I don't know how far it can take you -- and I'm a pretty weak player.
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