Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 07:43:19 10/12/98
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On October 12, 1998 at 00:26:52, odell hall wrote: > >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. Hi: Probably there is also a natural limit putted by your original talents. In any task -chess, maths, writting, etc- you start with a cluster of known or unknown potencials thar are progresively developed trought practice and learning, but then sooner or later you should reach the best combination of that intrinsic factors and progress should stop. Any GM career is a proof of that: no matter how much they play and study, it is a fact that each of them gets a level that is unsurpasable. Otherwise any of us with enough perseverance would reach Fisher level one day or another. fernando
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