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The Big Mistake Players Make After a Game: The Engine Trap

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Great article!!! but analysing with the engine save a lot of time

Great article!!! but analysing with the engine save a lot of time
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I was waiting for these guidelines to be written here instead of celebration of engines :D Chess has been changed over decades, but human brains are not. Meaning how people learn from mistakes. Often wrong conclusion is made that the best and most efficient method to learn is to turn on the engine. Totally wrong conclusion. It's the most LAZIEST method to study your loss game asking engine without any self processing. People are too attracted to smart phones as well which is a part of the problem. Every technical tool has to be used properly - think how and when?!! - no matter is it invented this year, 10 years ago or 20 years ago.

An answer for the question of another article: it is ok to turn your engine on and not analyse own at all...It's not OK, but very very bad method if you want to improve on chess.

I was waiting for these guidelines to be written here instead of celebration of engines :D Chess has been changed over decades, but human brains are not. Meaning how people learn from mistakes. Often wrong conclusion is made that the best and most efficient method to learn is to turn on the engine. Totally wrong conclusion. It's the most LAZIEST method to study your loss game asking engine without any self processing. People are too attracted to smart phones as well which is a part of the problem. Every technical tool has to be used properly - think how and when?!! - no matter is it invented this year, 10 years ago or 20 years ago. An answer for the question of another article: it is ok to turn your engine on and not analyse own at all...It's not OK, but very very bad method if you want to improve on chess.
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@Strikercool said in #2:

Great article!!! but analysing with the engine save a lot of time

Actually it is the opposite if we count how much what have we learned. 30 min own analysis saves your time compared to 20 sheer and redundant engine analyses.

@Strikercool said in #2: > Great article!!! but analysing with the engine save a lot of time Actually it is the opposite if we count how much what have we learned. 30 min own analysis saves your time compared to 20 sheer and redundant engine analyses.
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@Strikercool said in #2:

Great article!!! but analysing with the engine save a lot of time
unfortunately potential gain in linearly dependent on effort you put in. Looking with engine tell you where you made error but not why. And some times - not for obvious tactical errors - at least I cannot even say why solution by engine was better.

@Strikercool said in #2: > Great article!!! but analysing with the engine save a lot of time unfortunately potential gain in linearly dependent on effort you put in. Looking with engine tell you where you made error but not why. And some times - not for obvious tactical errors - at least I cannot even say why solution by engine was better.
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@BillieJoe said in #4:

Actually it is the opposite if we count how much what have we learned. 30 min own analysis saves your time compared to 20 sheer and redundant engine analyses.

Yeah, that's true...Addicting to the engine analysis, will not help in otb (real) chess improvement. Being obsessed to it, can reduce your thinking patterns as well, though a less amount of time is taken. Engines are not humans...Thinking by your own, helps for to pave a better future. Nice blog, by the way!

@BillieJoe said in #4: > Actually it is the opposite if we count how much what have we learned. 30 min own analysis saves your time compared to 20 sheer and redundant engine analyses. Yeah, that's true...Addicting to the engine analysis, will not help in otb (real) chess improvement. Being obsessed to it, can reduce your thinking patterns as well, though a less amount of time is taken. Engines are not humans...Thinking by your own, helps for to pave a better future. Nice blog, by the way!
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i loved the article, thanks for the tips. i think i can get better now

i loved the article, thanks for the tips. i think i can get better now
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if you have time, check by yourself as much as you can, but if you do not check with the engine you may come to wrong conclusions, fatal in the opening. One criterium beyond today's opening theory jungle would be, am I less likely to make a similar error? In most cases it is obvious why a computer prefers a certain line once the tactics are understood in terms of general chess rules of thumb, which ones are relevant here and which ones irrelevant. Then self observation is key, normally overconfidence plays a role in blunders.

if you have time, check by yourself as much as you can, but if you do not check with the engine you may come to wrong conclusions, fatal in the opening. One criterium beyond today's opening theory jungle would be, am I less likely to make a similar error? In most cases it is obvious why a computer prefers a certain line once the tactics are understood in terms of general chess rules of thumb, which ones are relevant here and which ones irrelevant. Then self observation is key, normally overconfidence plays a role in blunders.
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if you have time, check by yourself as much as you can, but if you do not check with the engine you may come to wrong conclusions, fatal in the opening. One criterium beyond today's opening theory jungle would be, am I less likely to make a similar error? In most cases it is obvious why a computer prefers a certain line once the tactics are understood in terms of general chess rules of thumb, which ones are relevant here and which ones irrelevant. Then self observation is key, normally overconfidence plays a role in blunders.
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if you have time, check by yourself as much as you can, but if you do not check with the engine you may come to wrong conclusions, fatal in the opening. One criterium beyond today's opening theory jungle would be, am I less likely to make a similar error? In most cases it is obvious why a computer prefers a certain line once the tactics are understood in terms of general chess rules of thumb, which ones are relevant here and which ones irrelevant. Then self observation is key, normally overconfidence plays a role in blunders. +1 -1 laugh thinking1 heart