Author: Robin Smith
Date: 09:04:38 05/28/04
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On May 28, 2004 at 08:48:11, Mike Taylor wrote: >On May 27, 2004 at 22:55:06, Robin Smith wrote: > >>On May 27, 2004 at 15:09:29, Mike Taylor wrote: > >Well, if you do not play against, making the argument that you know the ways to >beat them, seems to put your book in the 'meaningless' category. I am not _trying_ to make an argument that I know how to beat them. At least not over the board (I have defeated plenty of "people" who play _just_ like computers in postal games). I am making the argument that I know how to analyse using them. The book title is "Modern Chess Analysis" not "How to beat your chess computer". After all, even Kasparov and Kramnik are having trouble with the latter. If chess analysis is meaningless to you, then the book will be too. If you want to know _many_ analysis methods, and when and how to use which, and what program pitfalls to watch out for when using them as analysis assistants, then I think you will find plenty of meaning. There may be a couple tid-bits you can use to beat chess computers, but that is _not_ the focus of the book. >My theory on beating computer chess is as follows: How did the topic change from analysis to beating computers? These are very different topics. >1) Know the opening better than the opening book author; > >2) Forget about trying to out play the computer in the endgame, with Nalimov it >is impossible; and Computers still have many endgame weaknesses. Obviously not in extremely reduced endings such as Namilov, but with as few as 7 pieces on the board they still make mistakes. And endgame positional evaluations can be truly _terrible_. <snip> >Everyone that plays postal chess uses computers, that is what computer chess is >suppose to be about "Perfect Chess". _Most_ people (not everyone) rated above about 2300 uses computers. And _not_ perfectly. Those rated above 2600 such as myself use them more effectively, although even at this level the chess is _not_ perfect. My book is about using computers effectively, not just plugging a position into Fritz and seeing what Fritz spits out after running it overnight. >Robin no offence but after what you have just stated I think your book is >another "How To Improve Your Chess" book, rather than "How To Defeat The Silicon >Monster" book. It is neither. It is "Modern Chess Analysis", as the title states. A book such as this has never, until now, been written. Kongsted had a section on it, but no-one has done an entire book. Robin
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