"What's better for improving: Computer or Live players?"
Neither. Dead players are better than both.
What's better for improving: Computer or Live players?
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I'd say to play real people. Until you're at a high level, you're not going to get much out of training with computers. It's best to learn how to play against people rather than how to play against machines - you're not going to be facing a machine in a tournament or in real life.
SupremeOverlord wrote:
Maybe you should play people you know IRL who are even worse than you. Just to build up some of your shitty self-esteem, you spineless coward.
um... that was unnecessary
Thanks for the help so far, maybe there's a setting on this site somewhere to only play against people at a similar skill level. Every time I try to play someone live, I get paired with someone with like a 1700 raiting and get raped.
Yea anymore help would be great. I 'm sucking a pretty big fat one right now, my "rating" went down to 780
BOBANDY69 wrote:
... I 'm sucking a pretty big fat one right now...
lol u sound just like one of my friends
Set your "open seek" parameters at plus and minus 150 points.
Play only humans. Engines teach you nothing, except perhaps how to die from a thousand cuts. Weak engines are an utter waste of your time.
Buy a couple decent chess books -- Paul Littlewood, Chess Tactics, (1984);
Jeremy Silman, Essential Chess Endings Explained Move by Move, (1988).
Learn both books cold, and become roughly USCF C or B Class. Simple.
So what are you waiting for? Get with the program.
Hi there, so I've been trying pretty hard lately to improve my chess game and it seems like I've been getting worse. I started getting in to chess about a month ago, and still get destroyed by both the "easy" computer, and live players. I don't really want to give up, so what is everyone's opinion on getting better? Continue to play the computer? Or live players? I could just be terrible in general with no hope, but I wouldn't prefer to give up on trying to improve. Please help, thanks!