Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 08:50:26 12/21/98
KK, I admire your sincerity and you really try very hard to inform the chessplayers about the method to train and improve the game. Perhaps the methodology you suggested is an excellent method, but remember that you are not writing to chessmasters, nor IM, nor GM's, but to a majority of amateurs chessplayers. I agree wholeheartly with your method, and I use it personally, yet it is easy for me because of my understanding of chess, and unless one has reached a level of sophistication of understanding positional chess, your method is very difficult for a lot of amateurs chessplayers to use. And who said chess would be easy, the road to chess mastery is a thorny one and a very difficult journey. Of course the easiest way to use the engine would be use the engine to do the auto-analysis, but that does not involve any active participation of the user. And HOW CAN A PERSON LEARN IF THERE'S NO ACTIVE PARTICIPATION? One does not build muscles by watching a weightlifter lifting weights, one has to do the hard work and go and sweat it out. So the same principle applies to training in chess. NO ACTIVE THINKING EQUALS NO LEARNING. One does not learn by osmosis. Well, if these 3 or 4 US Masters disagrees, who cares, everyone is entitled to hear the opinion of others, and should leave the EGO out of this.
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