Author: Lawrence S. Tamarkin
Date: 17:25:37 01/17/99
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Hi Fernando: You've heard the expression, Do as I say, not as I do. Well it very much applies to me when it comes to chess improvement! I probabley as well (if not better), than anyone, know what is required to improve my game, and I have recommended these techniques a number of times on this newsgroup & other's. But when it comes to following my own (& the renowned chess books on the subject), advise, that of course is the last thing I will do! There is more to life than the many hours of close study & devotion to this great game. I am not willing to give up girls, movies, Beer! & Seinfeld (TV), to bear down and study those chess books & chess software programs for that Holly Grail of strong chess improvement. Sure, I'll move across the country, rejoin the Marshall Chess Club & play their and on the ICC, but I'm never going to be able to live all chess, even if it means never becomming a GM. But I agree with you, if their were a program that could, 'was a girl capable of some nudist show if you get the fulkl point.' Man, that would make me want to study some moves! :) mrslug - the inkompetent chess software addict! On January 17, 1999 at 17:30:11, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Dear Larry: >Of all people here that could, should or must critizise a note made half >seriously and half not a long time ago, you are the one I did not expect to >write such things. After all, you agreed with me that the laziness factor is >important and that's the reason you was losing streght over the years, remember? >after plasying computers. Because the take backs, the Pv line, etc. I told you >that and you agreed. So, what is the weird thing to talk of a utopic program >capable of forcing us a little bit to do things that we actually does not >perform partly because they are scatered in different programs and partly >because our lazyness or MY laziness? >Let me give you an example. A couple of minutes before loging CCC and looking >your post I just finished a game againts Crafty 15_18, the one in the >microvision new database program. Well, after 55 moves we reached a dead >position and so I got a draw -or Crafty got it- and you can believe it was an >interesting game, full of tactical threats, etc. But in my lazyness I not even >examined the game to learn something in the very same program made out for >that!!! Neither I will load it in fritz to see his opinion. Or whatever. BUT if >the program had done something more, like take my hand and say "hey, wait a >little, let us see where you could win the game...." Larry, besides I do not >know what kind of miracouslous thing we will have in just a couple of years. No >more than 5 years ago I had a 486 and I thought it was the fastest thing in the >world. No more than 10 years ago mi HD was 20 Mb and I wondered if I was going >to fill it enterily some day... :-) You see, we can ask anything becasuse >anything is possible. I forgot: I would ike tthat the incarnation of the program >was a girl capable of some nudist show if you get the fulkl point. Why not? Just >ask everything and something will be got. >Fernando
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