Author: Lanny DiBartolomeo
Date: 19:22:23 12/21/98
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On December 21, 1998 at 14:19:23, Raul Kukk wrote:
>On December 21, 1998 at 11:50:26, Laurence Chen wrote:
>
>>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.
>
> Y look to chess learning in same way . Even if you have just thouse bretty
>teachers as programms are,you must think,remember /learn it over.When somebody
>who says that computer auto/analysis(game over night)is good for chess
>understanding ,why not, You can try out.To someone who says pl/pl analyse is
>only to find out yours tactical mistakes-no problem!Over years y have seen some
>GREAT Gms Spassky,Keres,Psahhis,Tal...to Ehlvest,Shirov,OLL after games
>analysing.All they understand positional things dont they?The most watchful was
>how Tal after his play with Oll (Estonia/Latvia)analysed the game.It was wery
>quick, pawns were flyng ower the table!After some variation,quick take back and
>new variation so on and on!Thanks for nowedays PCs and pl/pl mode we can try it
>all!! :) Tomorrow y got to play match with young IM Kaido Kulaots
>2475-the rules are:he is plaing himself,Y play with help Junior5!!(without
>op.books).One hour each-best of four games. With best greetings!!!R.K.
Awesome,
Will you post the games?
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