Author: odell hall
Date: 21:26:52 10/11/98
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On October 11, 1998 at 20:23:40, syed wrote: >I plan to buy a professional chess software/database package soon to help me >prepare for tournament level play. I estimate my current level to be that of >junior level club player. >I am interested in knowing the experience chess players in this newsgroup have >had in software actually helping improve their ELO rating - USCF or otherwise. >Will it be possible for me to bump my ELO from say 1800approx. to 2300approx. >simply using this package, over say 6 months? > >thanks, >syed My personal expierence has been that chess computers have helped my play enormously. I started out a beginner and purchased The Radio shack 2150, after playing with this computer for two years, it took me to the 1800 level. I attribute this success exlusively to the computer, because I played very few humans during this period. I seriously doubt if any computer program or Human grandmaster for that matter can "bump your elo from 1800-2300 in two months, even if you have the talent of bobby fisher. Chess is much to complicated a game to improve so quickly. After trashing my radio shack, I started purchasing chess programs and this added another 150 pts to my rating, however for some reason my progress is somewhat arrested. I am not sure why this is, I think that it is possible that one can expierence overkill when you purchase a program so far rated above yourself that you cannot learn anything.
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