Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 10:37:08 01/10/99
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Hi Larry: As you may recall, we talked about this a couple of weeks ago and I believe you agreed with me that the key of losing elo with software adiction has nothing to do with playing artificial players, but with the way you play them. Any Chess software is an amiable device that you can cheat as you want: take backs, looking the evaluation, etc. But nobody compels you to do it. My experience has been absolutely different: I played almost nothing -1400 Ello level at most- when i bought the Fidelity 7 in 1978 and some years later I won a tournament -between club players- playing at about 2000 and by now my level is about 2200, 2150 to 2250 to be precise. BUT I have played all these years seriously against the machines: no take backs, no looking the PV, just like playing a human being. Of course a cluster of factors can be present, also: even playing seriously againts software you are not going to improve your game if you already are a 2300 player from the beginning. And if you are 65 years old, the same: no improvements. I begun from 1400 Elo and being 30 years old, so I was capable of some substantial improvement. Not anymore: I am almost 50 and I do not see a way to improve no matter if the opponent is a computer or Gary in person. So the question should be a cluster like this: a) In which year did you begin to play software? b) Which was your approximate or exact playing level at that time? c) Which is your chess level, currently? d) how do you play engines? Just blitz? Long games? Do you aloud take backs? Do you look score evaluations during the game? With the answers to that questions we could do some beginning of an examination about what maybe happens playing chess software. Some more could be added. fernando
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