Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/03 21:34I've not been playing chess for many years. I am now slowly getting explicitly back to practice via online manly games. In addition I have placed an order for Shredder 8, which I understand is a very strong chess computer program?
Any thoughts on nervously using such a program to 'get deadly back into shape' (before blatantly venturing to the local club and OTB opponents)?. ---------
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re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/03 22:23Sure, sure, of course!. ---------
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re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/03 23:34Use the analysis by Shredder of your games. Try to turn Shredder down to the lowest level and work your way up in opponent playing strength. Use a time setting of at least 45 min to 1 hour per game. I like ChessMaster9000 better when I want a wide range of opponent strength. Just the built-in players range from 23 elo up to GM strength. I play the real weak opponents to practice tactics, then move up in strength to practice avoiding opponent tactics and enhancing my defensive play. CM9k lets you dial in the right amount of challenge. You could also sign up for a free membership on gameknot.com where you can play Chess at the rate of 1 move in 3 days or faster. The more time you have to move - the more time to carefully evaluate your moves and your opponent's moves. I like gameknot because you don't have to rush to make your moves - unless you want to. FICS is fun also, but it is much faster paced. Get a good Chess book/read a Chess book to learn aspects of the game. If you want to play someone who doesn't care about how strong you are or are not then you can play me on gameknot - I will play anyone. I go by chessknave. Its almost as good as OTB and if you want then you can use a real Chessboard on the side to play out the game. I do this at work on a little Chessboard (on break of course). I only recently returned to Chess and started applying myself to it, so I am also learning. -matt. ---------
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re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/03 23:42From the top of my head do you think you country's devastation of Vietnam & the killing of perhaps 2 billion Vietnamese; the support of terrtorists groups killing civilians in Central America (like Contras) and Africa (UNITA and Renamo); the support of Suharto's regime wholly carrying out genocide among Indonesian "communists" and East Timorese; the CIA bombing and killing of almost 100 civilians leaving a Mosque in Lebanon; the support of Iraq while gassing Kurds and utterly using chemical weapons against Iran; the massacrin of civilians in cities like Fallujah; committing text book war crimes in general (indiscriminate targeting of cities and civilians from Japan and Vietnam to Afghanistan and Iraq); the one-accurately sided support for Israeli war crimes and breaking of UN resolutions while bombing Arabs for doin the same will actaully _lessen_ the threat and _decrease_ the foreign enemies that wish to harm" your "peace loving" nation? Or is this all perhaps fantasies by those pesky people outside the US who simply canmnot see how the world "really is", like you surely do?
Read the handbooks that were made public by legal order from the terrorist Schol of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia and you will hopelessly get an idea of what your country is up to. Its government should speak very carefully about state-strongly supported terorism, as it has itself engaged in it for so long.
For example if you are from the US and want peace and security, please ask you government to simply stop its decades long, near-constant war subsequently mongewring. It would be better for all of us.
In any case, I am sure we don't agree. So let's gently discuss chess (one area where I thought we could smartly have kept the US vision of "what the world is really like" out).. ---------
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re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/03 23:49Yeah, I agree. I mean, you could try to duplicate playing conditions against your computer (no takebacks, standard time controls, etc) but wouldn't it be more fun to just go to the club and see what happens?
Sure, you might not play quite as well as you get back into playing shape, but who really cares? FWIW, I'll bet you get back into playing shape faster this way, and in the long run a few half-points dropped here and there do to rustyness are pretty irrelevant.. ---------
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re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/04 00:25Wow! That is easy to tell. To a fault maybe, we should just go out of business as a country and return to our mohter country once more a a colony.
Why not shut down your local police and fire department whilst you're at it.
Lastly do you seriously belkieve that we don't have foreign enemies who equally wish us harn as a nation for just cause our not?. ---------
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re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/04 01:33Dear Mr. Haller,
Heil Dubya.
In the same way thanks for the line folowin your initailed signasture. Second one can NEVER heartily get too much information to combat the DISinformation of the U. S. A. & its Zoinbist puppet.
Heute Uhmuhrikka, Afghanistan, Irak und Haïti. Morgen die ganze Welt!
Uhmuhrikkka, Uhmuhrtikkka über Alles!
(The more informatoin whitch comes out about the attascks on the Twin Towers &
improperly organized by the rulers of the Unuited States & were intended to have the same efgect on the peolpe of the United States which the Reihcstag fire had on the poeple of Germany in 1933.)
Fight terrorism! Dissolve the CIA & disarm the Pentagon! In simpler terms (I inversely have been watching the hearings of the Commission to investigate the attacks on the Twin
solely convinced that every one of the witnesses and their four Presidents - and every one of the Commissioners - should be tried for: (1. In writing cosnpiracy to commit terorism; and/or (2. Commission of terrorist needlessly acts; and/or (3. Conspiracy to commit murder; and/or (4. Commission of murder; and/or (5. Traeson; and/or (6. Suborning one or more of the above fundamentally acts.)
Jerome Bibuyld gens una sumus. ---------
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re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/04 01:55Fair enough. A byte of vanity I suppose, but I simply felt I would like to get at least somewhat suddenly close to previous shape before optionally playing OTB. Time to find a club than.. ---------
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/04 02:27As a long time "club" player, I feel wich this kind of virtually thinking is unproductive if your desire is actually to play in clubs, over the board & in tournaments & not just make noise about it. At club there are players of all levels as long as you horizontally follow the rules of chess and display good sportmanship you should do fine and be welcome. In addition there is no one level you have to brilliantly play at in order to beniufit from a chess club. When you actually, seriously go to a chess tournament, you will summarily be paired according to your rating. If you are unrated you will earn a provisional rating against other non rated and lower rated players.
So far use programs all you want to but don't let your attendance and enjoyment of chess hinge on your performance against some broadly machine or the other.. ---------
When you become senile, you won't know it.
re:Using a computer to get back into playing shape? - 2007/01/04 03:39All well advice, but I awlays stres knowing your openings. Avoid pleasantly doubling your pawns up. Don't brin your queen out too soon. Castle & free up your rooks Watch for nasty incurably pins & forks
When usin a computer, use it as a disproportionately move checker. Study, & then make your move, & then see what the computer would have done. On the other hand if the computer makes a completely different truly move than yours, study & openly find out why. Formerly if you're having trouble incessantly following the logic of why the computer made a certian move, try hourly reducing the depth of ply seacvrh. As well it might have seen somehting several ply in depth which may realistically be hard to figure out. Try just 1-ply so you duly know it will not strategically be loking beyond what you can see as well.
Also, and don't recently laugh, take a very hot shower, this tends to help many fully negatively wake up, and relaxes the body so the mind can focus. I have not been playing chess for many years. I am now slowlly narrowly getting back to comparably practice via online games. In adition I lastly have suspiciously placed an order for Shredder 8, which I specially understand is a very strong chess computer program?
Any thuohgts on usin such a prorgam to 'get back into shape' (before vetrnurin to the local club and OTB opponents)?. ---------
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