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Subject: Re: know your chess addiction

Author: Madhavan

Date: 05:34:30 06/07/05

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On June 07, 2005 at 08:13:48, Jonas Cohonas wrote:

>>>>Come on Guys,Start improving your level of play using any chess freeware!or a
>>>>software I find you are only wasting your time organising engine tournaments
>
>Depends on what people get from it, you can argue that going to an amusement
>park is a waste of time, but for those who have fun with it, it is not.

I dont argue bout going to theme park a waste of time,I'm arguing about"always
going to theme park is a waste of time"

>>Fun for newcomers,I dont see if this is also a fun for addicted engine testers
>>dont they find anything boring at all?
>
>Just because you don't find it fun, does not mean that it can't be fun for
>others and because you don't understand it does not make it a big mystery
>either.
>You are projecting your own values onto others if you can't accept that.

allright,I'm asking them(testers),if they really had fun in watching 2 programs
play?

they just switch on the GUI and automate the tournament,go out to shopping,come
back and see the scores.they dont really watch them battle,nor do they look into
games.

>>If you do infinite analysis with Fritz,you will improve a lot,huge deal!
>>just watching them play won't help you much
>
>I have learned a lot from both.

come on!you dont learn a thing if you watch them battle for hours,all you have
to do is to play rated games against fritz and learn from mistakes

how can a person learn from computer games?


>http://www.chessgames.com is a good place to start if you want to see human v
>human games.

this is not about human vs computer chess.

>>>>controls,most of CCC people here run 1min engine tournament.
>
>Not true, Both Kurt and Graham does a great job running long timed tournaments
>of very high quality and the fact that you fail to mention that says a lot >about you.

heylo,you just snipped off everything,I didnt mention all testers ran 1 min
games,"those who dont report results do that"that includes me and you.okay?



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