Author: blass uri
Date: 06:42:55 12/12/99
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On December 12, 1999 at 01:30:48, Jeff Anderson wrote: >I am an 18 year old chess player with a USCF rating right around 1700. I've >been playing chess for two and a half years now. I believe that computer chess >programs have caused serious faults in my ability to analyze. When I see people >analyzing a position, for example in the post mortem of a game, they usually do >it very well and see a lot of ideas and tactics, even though they are much lower >than me, yet I am overwhelmed. When I sit down in to annotate one of my games I > cannot possibly do it without my computer. When I try, I end up giving up and >thinking to myself, "What's the point. A computer would find better lines in a >fraction of a second." I, as young as many young chess players, will have a >difficulty analyzing because of a dependence on computer chess programs. >I believe an increased dependence on computer chess programs for analysis has >hurt my over the board play, and will hurt the over the board play. Nearly all >of the experts and masters I know rarely if ever use a computer chess program. >If they had used them when they were still class players, I doubt they would >have progressed to expert or master. I am sure that using computers could help them to be better if they only used them in the right way. If you analyze a game without computer you can miss tactical mistakes and cannot learn from them. The right way to learn chess is trying to analyze your game without a computer but also give the computer to analyze your game to see if you missed tactical mistakes. If you do mistakes try to understand the reason for the mistakes(what was wrong in your thinking) in order not to repeat a similiar mistake again. Uri
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