Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 06:12:09 10/12/03
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On October 11, 2003 at 18:14:32, Alan Grotier wrote: > > I have said this before here. > Playing chess on a computer monitor has distorted the way I see the game on a > real live touchable chess board. > > I now have trouble seeing what's happening on a real board! > > I am thinking I should purchase the GrandMaster auto-sensory and do all my > play on it and then only use the computer of analysis. > > This is serious. Does anyone agree?.......Alan Post-mortem analysis of a game used to be done using two chessboards. Then came the PCs with chess programs. Now I do all my analysis using the PC because it is easier to move around in the game using the PC. As a concrete example, consider the situation where a move can be played immediately or delayed a few moves. In such cases, back-and-forth comparisons of the resulting positions is trivial using the PC, whereas a lot of wood has to move on a real chess board. Another example is the search for and examination of games containing the same position as the one you're currently looking at. This is trivial using a database management program such as ChessBase 8.0. It is also trivial to turn on a computer the next day and go immediately to some positions of interest in one of the games you may have been looking at. Generally, I find that the negatives of using a PC are greatly outweighed by the convience that the PC offers, assuming that you are using the appropriate chess software. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, positions found in hard copy books are almost always two dimensional and are not much different from what is seen on a PCs monitor. One really needs to be able to cope with the two-dimensional nature of such illustrations in hard copy books. A more theoretical issue is the method used by blindfold players. Do they visualize a three dimensional board in their heads, complete with eyes on the knights, and breasts on the queens??? My blindfold abilities are somewhat limited, although I usually analyze positions in my head. I do not do that in three dimensions. I suspect that blindfold "visualization" is closer to the 2-dimensional than to the 3-dimensional. In spite of all the above, I am about to purchase the DGT electronic chessboard for use with my PC. I plan to use it to play won endgames against my computer as training games to help me to learn more about endgames. Anyway, the topic is interesting. : ) Bob D.
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