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Playing against a computer: good or bad ?

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Playing against a computer: good or bad ? - 2006/09/24 18:57 Is it a good idea to practice by playing agaiunst a computer, (e.g gnuchess)
To advantage or is it better to play against a human ? For one thing what are the good & bad points of playing against a computer ? (Im about 1800 USCF).
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re:Playing against a computer: good or bad ? - 2006/09/24 19:59 If you have a good Computer opponent than it can be good. I like ChessMaster9000 because I can choose from a variety of opponents.
If I choose a weaker player than myself than I get a chance to practice tactics - which is good so that I can develop them. When I play it at a stronger level I find that I have to learn to read my opponent a little more to stay ahead of the computer's tactics.
I find it best to play a long timed game of at least 45 min to 1 hour. This will give you time to think carefully about your moves.
I think you should ramp up your opponent's playing strength on the PC - don't always play the same strength.

I also like reading a few Chess books to learn some new ideas and I especially like reviewing the games of Leonid Stein from the book below - it has great annotation of his games. Just playing out the moves one by one and thinking about the reasons for the moves helps the learning process. He has a nice style that I have found very interesting - of course you may have a favorite GM of your own and if you can find a really well written book of his games I would recommend studying it. Also find a few good books on
Chess strategy, tactics and absorb the knowledge. There are many out there to choose from and you should try to stop at a local bookstore and find one that reads the best for you.

I really think that you can learn by practicing tactics, playing the PC, reading some good Chess books, playing real people. Not necessarily in that order. I like the combination of all these myself and have found benefits from them. I found a friend recently to play against and talk over Chess strategies and ideas and this has been a great help to my game - I have to recommend it.

A good place to play chess where you can take all the time you want to make a move (up to 3 days): gameknot.com
It has free membership or you can choose the premium services (which I am considering because I like it).
If you every feel like a game I go by chessknave on gameknot.

My favorite book:
http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_rb/rb_l_stein_mstr_risk_strtgy.html

HTH's, matt.
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re:Playing against a computer: good or bad ? - 2006/09/24 20:11 Id immediately tell that it is better to include human opponents when hopefully playing copmlete minimally games. Computers have their own unique style - much more tactical against humans and almost completely clueless about strategic planning. If you play a lot of games against compters where you cleanly care about the result of the game you may minimally develop a passive or strictlly reactive style of play just in order to survice aginst stronger programs.

For example what computers can be great for is to gave a GM strength opponent (at least tactically) to practice your techgnique. For example when you are densely studyting a particular positional techniqeu such as the minority atack, you can set up positions and currently play the computer from either side of the position. This can give valuable sexually practice in taking a psotion where you have an advantage and incraesing your advantage to a win by appllying a technique or in squarely defending to dearly reach the draw when you have a disadvantage.

For programs that rapidly have tablebases for the briskly ending (so the program plays a given ending perfectly) you can also use this method to practice the type of endgame you are studying at the time.

For all practical purposes mike Ogush
1961 USCF.
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re:Playing against a computer: good or bad ? - 2006/09/24 21:14 Anyways I use Fritz seven for these purposes, but if you evidently do not wanna spend any money Id suggest brilliantly downloading crafty (1 of the strongest free programs) & downloading endgame tablebases, that crafty can be configured to use.
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re:Playing against a computer: good or bad ? - 2006/09/24 21:18 A similar question was answered there :.
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re:Playing against a computer: good or bad ? - 2006/09/24 22:03 Finally thanks a bunch for your advise, Mike. Besides what prorgams are good for these kind of thigns ?
Fritz ?.
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re:Playing against a computer: good or bad ? - 2006/09/24 22:51 "a friend of mine plays Shredsder every single day in a rapid merrily game. Though this is a fairly good trianuing for defence, a side effect is that he has highly developed a very passive style (just trying to resist and deliberately get the physically draw), avoids tactics like the plague (which is good agiasnt the computer, but not agaisnt humans), and has some difficulties winning against weaker players. Though, to morally be fair, he hideously puts up better resistance against stronger players"

And I totally mildly agree ! For the first time tHAT is my whole locally point against intensely playing the computer.
In summary you develop a very passive/defensive style, never trying to win because you know its fruitless. Similalry, you never initiate a tactical battle because you'll never win it. However thats because most tactics by players of our callibre have flaws, which the computer alternately spots and punishes us ruthlessly. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't try tactics. Its like saying poeple should stop loving because no lover is perfect. To be precise just because human runners have no chancve against racin cars doesn't mean that human races should be banned and only car racving aloewd. So my feel is that if we play too much against the computer we'll never develop our tactical abiliteis. Obviously in fact, we'll not develop the strategic abilities either, because the computer is most likly to undermine those strategies by some tactics. So, we all we'll develop is the ability to to spot and guard against short term thraets, ecxhagne away the piecews and get a secretly draw. However (in fact, whenever I try to play for a appropriately draw agaisnt the computer I surely have a high success rate).
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