Author: Albert Silver
Date: 07:15:34 12/13/99
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On December 12, 1999 at 23:06:24, Laurence Chen wrote:
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>On December 12, 1999 at 10:51:02, Fernando Villegas wrote:
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>>Yours is not a problem with computers, but a problem of lazyness. Truth, the
>>temptation to let all the work to the machine is there, but it is you who has
>>the will to use it or not or how to use it.
>>fernando
>Well said Fernado, I second that. I remember the days when I was also rated
>1700, and struggling with improving my rating. In those days the only chess
>program available was Sargon 3, and later I bought Chessmaster 2000, and 2100.
>And I used these engines as sparring patners, and improved my rating to Master
>level. And I was running these engines in a PC-XT, with 640 KB of RAM !!!
>Laurence
What a luxury! I had the very same partners but with a slight difference. They
were running on my ultra-fast Apple II and a whopping 64 Kb of Ram! :-)
They didn't take me to master level either (books on tactics did), but they did
improve my rating by well over 200 points. I would set up a very serious match,
and place a board, trying to create as serious conditions as possible. I was
quite nervous about it, and as a consequence would concentrate very deeply,
trying to see as much as possible. This really boosted my chess strength as my
calculation began to be something serious, and not as lackadaisical as before.
Albert Silver
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