Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 19:37:29 01/15/04
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On January 15, 2004 at 21:03:36, Paul Doire wrote: >On January 15, 2004 at 09:58:13, Neil Fulton wrote: > >>I'm an adult who has played and understands the basic rules of chess but would >>like to learn the game well. I live in a small town, however, and have limited >>outlets to be taught and to play. I would like to buy a good teaching computer >>or software to both play and learn. Any suggestions for the best options to >>teach a pretty novice player but that also have room to really grow? > >Hello welcome and simply??!! > >Buy Chessmaster 9000 or 8000 or 7000 at some places the software is available >very inexpensively. I will not preach about how to live in a small town...geez.. : ) >simply these programs have "personalities" that you can select , all the way >from very weak beginners to Grandmaster type personalities. They also have >excellent , easy to follow tutorials about various aspects of the game. > >Although there are stronger (not much) chess programs out there, this is easily >one of the best if not the best for someone learning the game. > >P.S. At the highest levels it plays at the grandmaster levels. >Hope this helps, and pardon this board these are mostly advanced chess computer >folks who live cerebrally in a different hemisphere and possibly cannot >comprehend what a beginner has to deal with. > >Regards, >Paul You know, it used to be that chess was not played on the internet [There wasn't any] and there were no personal computers at all! I won't claim that "those were the good old days" however. Nevertheless, most of my chess was played under those conditions [1954-1984]. Chess programmers were few and far between and did their thing on what were then called "mainframes." Back then people travelled to chess tournaments in neighboring towns and cities. That may be mostly a thing of the past for most chessplayers. On the other hand, if you can afford it [$200 per weekend tournament minimum] that would still be a very educational option. A serious chessplayer could prepare for each tournament and then do exhaustive post-mortem analyses of the games afterwards. That is what the "big guys" like Kasparov do. A "small town guy" could do that too. : ) Bob D.
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