Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 00:21:41 01/10/99
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Again a very interesting question. For me, after I got involved in collecting chess software, my rating did nothing. In fact because of what I perceive as a (chess approach), psychological problem's, my rating plummeted from a high of over 2300, to its current 2049! Once I got my enthusiasm for the Art, beauty and particularly, sport of the game back, (I relocated to one of the chess capitals, NY, rejoined the Marshall CC, and play almost every day on the ICC, I think I am making significant gains back to Master territory; my ICC rating is already over 2250, and even though I gain no points in my first rated tournament in two years, (The Last Blunder of 1998, at the MCC), I could feel the higher chess level in my games. I lost to GM Sherzer from a decent position as Black, defeated two U-1800 player's then lost to another Master in the last round. It is clear to me that while chess software (and of course chess book's, magazine's, chess videos, etc.), are all very useful for increasing chess of playing weekly competitive chess (mostly 4-rated games on Thursday's, and Rapid tournament's on Friday's) at the Marshall, I predict a 3 to 400 USCF rating point gain! knowledge, only the immediate human element has the greatest impact on one's actual chess performance. Hence what I would like to call the 'Tamarkin chess experiment' - After 1 year of competition on the ICC, along with the 'synergy,' Of course, since I have decided to resume my scholastic chess teaching career, and pretty much devote all my energies to this royal game, I am not exactly the 'typical' example chess software user... mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On January 10, 1999 at 01:39:03, Reynolds Takata wrote: >How many points on average would you say that you(whoever you are) have >increased in strength(if any) since you first purchased a professional chess >program? Answer only if you believe that the increase in strength had something >significant to do with the usage of the chess program. I'm not too interested >as to the effect you think databases have had but that may be of some interest >as well(yeah throw that in too :)). I'm curious also if some statistic or >comonality could be found in those whose strength did increase. This is >suddenly of interest to me because 95+% of all chess players in a 5 year >period(excluding juniors) don't increase their rating beyond the statistical >margin of error(when they do, the rating usually falls right back to where it >started, and no significant change can be seen) > >R. Takata >USCF Life MAster
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