Aren't they just our ancestors?
Do you mean the people that came from Germany, or from the Neatherlands or perhaps the Vikings?
It is not nearly as simple as you think.
However I am absolutely sure that the inventors of the English language are not the people who live in England today for they would need to be hundreds of years old.
Maybe even millenia
If analysing with the computer is not part of studying, then I suppose all the way. That’s if you had endless time. But studying makes you learn faster because you don’t have to discover everything by yourself like alphazero.
People only say this about English because it's popular. Nobody would say this about Finnish.
People only say this about English because it's popular. Nobody would say this about Finnish.
Say what about Finnish?
I have no idea who invented the Finnish language, but I am sure it was before a nation called Finland existed and it was also before Finnish was spelled in any way whatsoever since it was first only spoken and only written later, like pretty much every language.
I mean you don't get people who say Finland didn't invent Finnish. But people say England didn't invent English.
I mean you don't get people who say Finland didn't invent Finnish. But people say England didn't invent English.
Obviously Finland did not invent Finnish. The Finnish language existed before Finland existed.
Also languages are developed by people, not nations, so most definitely England did not invent English any more than Finland invented Finnish.
This is basic stuff.
Most of the people ik that actually improve start studying at 1000+
You can go really, really far. If you're lucky enough, you might even oass the milky-way!
my peak was 1000 without studying
Although the "results" I have achieved ( if we want to consider the rating as a measure of progress ) are decidedly modest, I think that most of them have been achieved through what we can call "study".
I've read some beginner's manuals ; I've followed about sixty ( excellent ) video lessons here on chesscom ( even if they are scored twice for some reason that has been explained to me but that I still don't understand well ); I've done the exercises ( thousands of puzzles ) ; Currently, I'm dedicating myself to the very pleasant study of Morphy's games. The only thing that has served me little or nothing is the time I have dedicated to openings ; But I don't deny it, because that was also very pleasant.
Considering that on average I devote no more than an hour a day to chess, I practically spent this time more studying than playing. I think that if I had just played with the same time, I'd be even a more modest player than I am now.
And I'm afraid that from this point on, in order to improve appreciably, it would be necessary to start studying really seriously, and devote a lot of time. Which is unfortunately impossible.
In any case, however you feel about its usefulness, studying is always good. It broadens horizons.
To be fairly honest, if youre OTB, get a coach or do some puzzle books. They helped me alot and im around 1800 OTB now. Theres also alot of other stuff but yk.
You're not 1800 OTB... Your like 1000 on chess.com lol
Well In person chess is different calculating then online chess
It's not 865 rated in rapid different...
Btw what happened to your other account ?
Me? I just changed my pfp to a cat, it's the same account.
Oh it logged as joined a month ago
Aren't they just our ancestors?