How to use chess engine to improve chess skill?
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Don't just ask it for chess help. Ask it about itself. Have coffee with it. To get the most out of a chess engine, you need to establish a personal relationship with it, not just a professional one.
Computers are great at blunder checks. Eliminating stupid blunders could easily bring a rating up to 2000.
Opening preperation by using to computer to pratice move order and opening traps.
Engame pratice with the computer will show you how to effecintly play the endgame.
+JumpyPoney Why do you think every 1800 USCF can play the opening like a 2800 grandmaster? Because of engines. Historically, engines have improved people's chess by like 300-400 points, especially in the opening phase and in pattern recognition. I'm underrated and don't take chess.com seriously.. I should be a 2150 on here. I mainly play on lichess and ICC.
Anyway, chess is full of conflicting information; its like nutrition. Some believe soy is bad for you because of phytoestrogens and stuff. Others think its really nutritious, and well worth eating.
Pfren doesn't seem to like chess engines.. Neither does Jeremy Silman... It's because you will become reliant on the engine as to back up your chess knowledge. When you reach unknown territory, you'll feel like lost. "I never looked this up with an engine!" Not really the right way to approach the position... In addition, a chess game is always either a won, loss, or draw... Engines are just numbers, so like a +0.34 move could just be as good as a -0.01 move, because maybe they both just draw with perfect play.. In addition, maybe the -0.01 move is easier to play for you, and easier to find the best moves.
You should use engines to master your opening protocol, to spar practice games with, and to review games (but Grandmasters like Jacob Aagaard say that you should review your games naturally first, with human analysis, and then back it up with an engine the second round.. that's true, I agree.)
+jonesmikechess I agree.
Cactusjuice01 wrote:
Anyone who know this?
I use chess engines for 1 thing. To analyze my games, ater i have done my own analysis. This helps me understand where im going wrong.
I think something that is very important is also something that is forgotten. You arent playing an engine, youre playing a person.
Oct 12, 2016
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I prefer to go over them with a higher rated player. With a computer you might not understand the moves sometimes, and other times they have errors. In a game I played the computer thought a queen sac was best for my opponent, but high rated player I showed the game to disagrees. I read an article on Silman with computer analysis. The gist of what he said is that it's better to know the patterns taught by just going over a lot of tactics, and over the material in his books, because sometimes computers get that stuff wrong. In his article he gives an example of a game he knew if he was playing could win in that position simply because he knew how to play it, but the computer didn't. I'm sure you could find that article on chess.com fairly easily. Just look for Silman Articles.
If you so choose to aid your analysis with a computer the first thing you should do is go over the game yourself, and if you can, it's better to just go over the game with a higher rated player, or a coach, but if you don't have one, then the computer is the substitute.
Oct 12, 2016
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#8
Basically it is Just ask them if you need to know something and they will tell you.
Just use it to check abstract positions where a computer would tell u the position is +0.44 almost a half pawn for white, but u have no idea why. For instance, the Sicilian Najdorf but as displayed on the board.
Check variations that make the computer think that white is so much positionally superior (Half a pawn in a najdorf???? The Najdorf is literally the best Sicilian line. It literally almost equalizes for black. The Sveshnikov would be second place, and the sveshnikov is messy and weird.)
Edit: Computers are great for discovering opening novelties. I honestly can't wait until we run out of novelties. I want chess to be solved, I don't know why, most people would disagree with me. Computers are very good at preparing you for novelties cuz your brain jumps your head and you go 'Oh hey, Komodo 420 recommends Ne5 here, but the main line is Rd8! This is an important novelty and I should go over it just in case...'
Chess engines help find some opening tactical problems but beyond this there are plenty of free problem solving sites and apps that are probably the best way to improve a game.
Dec 7, 2016
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#11
Re: that Sicilian Najdorf position with the question of Nc6 vs Nd7.
Another reason that Nc6 can be sub-optimal is that Black often plays his LSB to e6. If this piece gets kicked (usually by f2-f4-f5) it will go to c4. This is very easy to arrange if your b8-Knight is on d7 (since a Queen on c7 or a Rook on c8 can guard the c4 square) but is much more annoying to deal with if the c-file is closed by a Knight at c6.
blueemu wrote:
Re: that Sicilian Najdorf position with the question of Nc6 vs Nd7.
Another reason that Nc6 can be sub-optimal is that Black often plays his LSB to e6. If this piece gets kicked (usually by f2-f4-f5) it will go to c4. This is very easy to arrange if your b8-Knight is on d7 (since a Queen on c7 or a Rook on c8 can guard the c4 square) but is much more annoying to deal with if the c-file is closed by a Knight at c6.
Simple and logical. Never thought that much out. Also, if the bishop is on b7 instead of e6, the knight on d7 helps not block the bishop out, not that you don't know that xDDD
Don't. Magnus Carlsen the world champion himself said chess computers sucks.