Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 12:45:17 12/28/02
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On December 28, 2002 at 12:30:25, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On December 28, 2002 at 09:52:58, Bob Durrett wrote: > >>On December 27, 2002 at 23:15:42, Drexel,Michael wrote: >> >>>On December 27, 2002 at 21:38:07, Bob Durrett wrote: >>> >>>>On December 27, 2002 at 21:13:55, Drexel,Michael wrote: >>>> <snip> >>I print the key positions, which I failed to solve during my games, in a >>notebook and look at them every now and then. Since my memory is not so hot >>anymore, I occasionally have to "resolve" the positions when I look at them, >>assuming it has been awhile since the last time. Then I look at the solutions >>to see if I got it right this time. Surely, this cannot be a bad thing to do! >>The computer is not involved at all after the positions and solutions have been >>printed. >> >>Bob D. >> > >I think it is not important to keep the positions you failed to solve. >it is important to understand why you failed in this positions in order to >understand better the nature of this sort of positions next time. >><snip> Well, maybe I gave the wrong impression. I am not keeping these the way a stamp collector keeps stamps, i.e. for a lifetime. Instead, I am keeping them for a while to keep going back to until such time as I do fully "understand why you failed in this positions in order to understand better the nature of this sort of positions next time." These positions were DIFFICULT for me. They represent serious weaknesses in my game. The idea was to keep going back to them until they are no longer difficult. It would not be reasonable for me to expect to understand them "once and for all" upon first examination and then never have to go back and refresh. I am an ordinary human. Besides, it's too easy to convince oneself that "I understand it fully now" when it's still unclear. [This is not a deficiency in self confidence. It's just being realistic.] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The role of chess software in this is merely to help identify such positions and to assist in in-depth analyses to unfathom their mysteries. Getting back to the original bulletin in this thread: I suspect that people will appreciate having better chess software analysis tools in the future. I hope that chess programmers of the future will address the needs of users like me and strive to produce better analysis tools. Bob D.
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