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 Defining the better use of game analysis with a program...But it is actually easy to picture! Take a game that has ended OR better yet,start a game with your program.Set the time limit on some huge amount...like a few hours OR just simply make a move and set your option on "infinite analysis" before you make a move.Got it so far?Easy,right?Now what next? Closely observe your move and the way the program looks at your move through its "point value" assessment of that specific move.Say,for example,you move your Knight to e3 instead of some other option like d4.Try both moves on infinite analysis and closely observe which move of that Knight shows if there is a difference in higher or lower assessment values.Perhaps,for example,moving it to d4(closer to the center)may have a much higher value than moving it to e3.You may have just discovered that a Knight that is centralized can be used in a form of a pinwheeling effect and have more positional value with respect to a fixed outpost to attack in short term tactics!!!!The program will detect that "better"move and tell you in the analysis window that is is a better move!Test it!Take the move back and use the other d3 move!Does it show a less value? Now your beginning to learn!!!!Continue to make moves in a random game you set up against the program.Does the program indicate that you are out of book too early?Not always a good thing!Or have you turned the book off and want to try a game right from the start with no book on the programs side?That is ok too...for you can still observe the programs analysis of any of your moves!Lets say you move your Rook to square a6.Suddenly,the program shows a + 5 for its side as black.This means that in the next move or several moves down the line...you will be losing that Rook(5 points).Find out why!Then go back and move that Rook to another square or move another piece entirely.Recheck with the program.Does it show a + or - 0.01?or an = sign?That means that your NEW move was much better than the first Rook move! Your learning more! Do the same with other moves.perhaps you want to see if that fianchetto move is good,bad or =?Maybe moving that Q to the center gives the analysis a -1 and you are the white?This means that you will probably lose a pawn due to moving that Q away from your own pawn formation.Take the Q move back and try something else!!!! Again,you are learning to improve through trial and error and testing yourself against the program!The possibilities are infinite! Now some of those so called GUI's can be intimidating.Those are the platforms that allow a chess program to be used.Programs in other words are generally not stand alone systems.They need a kind of "frame"to be used with various controls,options,strength and contempt setting and more.All of this comes from a GUI framework that includes special windows. But the simpler ones like the old Fritz/Shredder UCI's(like Fritz 11)are extremely easy to use.My choice is an "Arena"GUI...but Arena is mainly for much more experienced users and not for the faint of heart!Arena is complex,trust me on that.You could conceivably tune the program incorrectly without knowing it and it might be making handicap errors or playing in a fashion to only play for draws,ect ect! But putting GUI's aside for the moment,you can test all your moves along side a program.Make the program your friend!It does not matter if it is 10,000 times stronger than you!It does not matter if it will defeat you 10,000 games out of 10,000 games!That is NOT the point!!! The point is that you can use any program as a learning tool.Set up any position in midgame for example.Perhaps a random position you just invented out of the blue. Make a move from that position OR perhaps let the computer make its move first!Observe! Does it immediately show a big advantage in point value for its move?That tells you that the position you just set up was a weak one and places it in the programs advantage.This would be the equivalent of placing that position in a human opponents hand that might have taken the same advantage against you!Readjust that position,try again.Move something else,try different combinations of moves,ect.Now,does it show 0.00,a 1.00 or a -2.56 value?This can all be accurately determining your move or position based upon computer program analysis. But see what is happening here? You can or are developing a kind of "pattern recognition"to moves like centralized Knights,Fianchettos,Pawn structures and more by moving and taking back moves that show + and - or = signs relative to your moves!!!!Its your coach without saying one word...just illustrating its lesson to you through math! See now? So do not be intimidated by any program or GUI.Those tools can definitely help you improve.You just have to know how and why then get the initiative to explore and utilize these tools without making all kinds of excuses why you will not use the tools.Want to stay at your rating for life,maybe improving a bit,but not much?Then ok,forget these tools I mention!Just want to play chess for fun and could care less what your rating is now or 10 years from now?Then this thread is not for you! Take care for now. TA |
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Combining it all with programs,books,no books and you: On another subject however Joe,computer generated books and other programs may not have been as useful to you simply due to not knowing how to use them correctly.(And this goes for many players,not Just Joe): Program combined with out of book and in book study comparison training: For example: Have the GK book or a better book aside of you(like Hiarcs) on your computer.Now,start a random game you just set up between the book,yourself and a real chess analyzing program. The first thing you want to do is turn off the book and do several things: 1.Play against the computer(on low strength settings for your rating)with out of book random moves for you AND the computer program.This tests your minds ability to cope with random opponent moves(the program) and you. 2.Then play "in book" against the computer program(like Fritz)but STILL have Fritz play out of book!How is your progress doing?Research,go back and remove if necessary. 3. Now set the program on "in book"moves but your moves are still random,out of book. 4.Finally set your moves in book and the computers in book. All of the 4 conditions above will test your abilities and rating strength against the program.The tests will help you improve over time.You must just make sure that the program out of book to start with is not set too high in strength.You will know this if it beats you every time.Then reduce its strength even more in the engine parameters. So computer programs and better opening book generators have extensive advantages as tools,as long as you know HOW to study with them step by step! |
