Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 09:25:55 07/15/05
In the age -pleistocene- when my strongest chess computer was Champion Sensory Challenger, supposedly rated 1773 in USCF scale, one day I got enough expertisse about this specific computer and its program as to begin to get motre and more better results, say, more draws and more wins. Some of those good results, I realized, were the more or less unconscius use of lines that has been good to me in the past, so in a way, specially in the openning, I was tending to repeat them and so get better positions in the middle game. The day I realized that simple fact was the same day I begun to play with the purpose NOT to use anymore those lines, NOT to use aymore those opennings and NOT to remember nothing about even my brightest winning past manouvres -or what I considered so- so I could play the Champion each time as if was the FIRST time, when just unpacked. Which was the rationale of such a decision, aparently against any normalo desire to learn more chess and being a better chess player? The rationale was that I liked to play the computer NOT to get results, but to get FUN facing new challenges each time, to exercize my mind facing new challenges each time and to explore new paths to, -Ok, you already guessed- face new challenges each time. And as much the computer was not going to change, I was the side to cange, changing my approach Asociated with this was a simple financial calculation: the computer would become a bad investment if it could not give me a kick each time I played it. I think that this rationales, that I keep as a gospel to this day, is still valid and make of any "anti-computer" approach a preposterous way of playing. Sure, I would be defeated the same, but I avoid a probable win just because "there is a way" to get it. I say this not to flame Pablo, but just to debate about so diverse ways of using computers. My best Fernando
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