Author: Peter Berger
Date: 02:37:10 06/17/03
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On June 16, 2003 at 18:38:51, Fernando Alonso wrote: >Thanks, the article was really nice to read! And it did confirm my idea of >playing correspondence chess to improve chess skills. My first thought though, >was to use the engine to analyse my moves before playing them, not to play the >moves the engine suggests, but it might be a bad idea. The problem is that being >a computer chess lover I don´t know if I will be able not to analyse an >interesting position with the engines when it comes :). A good point :) - it happened to me, too, recently. I played two correspondence games, one with engine assistance allowed and planned, the other one against a friend and his computer where I had no plans to use computer assistance myself. One evening I only remembered this after I had spent quite a few hours looking at some critical lines in this game together with Fritz ;). But one thing is for sure - don't expect to learn _anything_ if you use an engine to assist your play at your current level. It will most likely control _you_ :) . IECG (http://www.iecg.org) really sounds like a good place to start. It is free, computer assistance is allowed but you will find many players who don't use engines at all, probably everybody who is rated below 1700, so you can find out if you are able to resist the temptation without violating any rules ;) Cheers, Peter
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