Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 21:51:28 12/21/98
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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. You are sure confusing the issue. I said tournament players get the most out of player player engine PVs back and forwards analysis but even non tournament players should do this if they have played a game and saved it. Assuming a non tournament player is studying the tutorials and reading chess books and taking lessons from a human master how else can he really learn if he doesn't use the move by move analysis method. Any player can benefit from this of course but the lower rated tournament players will spend a lot of time doing tutorials such as in the Chess Mentor program. However any master that thinks he is using a chess program efficently by simply playing against an engine and then using overnight auto annotate analysis and then looking at that 1 PV for each move in the morning is fooling himself. Any player worth his salt must do the move by move player player analysis. Without the computer that is what he would be doing so just because he has a computer doesn't obviate the need to do this. It can't be done with CM6000 vey efficently and that is why I called CM6000 a toy program. -- Komputer Korner
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