Author: blass uri
Date: 13:10:18 12/27/99
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On December 27, 1999 at 15:48:18, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: <snipped> >>I mean this: I am a 1800 player, very bad in tactics but with a positional >>understanding of 2000, maybe a bit more. How to judge progress in Rebel's >>positional understanding every time I add new chess knowledge? > >Statistically spoken you should not even near to 1500 Ed. > >Non actively chess playing people are hugely overestimating their >chessstrength/insight. It depends on the person. Some overestimate their chessstrength and some underrestimate their chessstrength. I do not see a reason to believe that ed overestimate his chess strength. He can test his strength against Rebel elo levels if he wants to do it. <snipped> >I can't find you at any dutch rating list, >so my assumption is that you're one of those guys. > >Working on a chess engine sure doesn't improve playing strength, >as you let the program solve stuff instead of solving it yourself. It is not clear to me. If you learn what is the reason for the games your program is losing you can understand more about chess and not only fix mistakes of your program but avoid doing the same kind of mistakes in your games. Uri
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