Author: Mark Young
Date: 09:01:37 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. Don't let players B.S. fantasy post mortem analysis through you off in your game.. confidence wise. If the lower rated players are able to see all these ideas in a post mortem, they will be able to see them in their games and be winning with them. 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.
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