Do you think this would be a good technique to get better at chess? (learning to play like a comput)

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Avatar of gawdIsGreat

Do you think this  would be a good learning technique?

1. look at stockfish source code (I'm fairly good at c++)

2. make notes of all criterias stockfish uses to evaluate a position and how exactly it does it

3. analyze games of mine after those criterias to train my intuition

4. play longer games and try to use some of the same criterias for decidincg wether a move is good

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Unless you can play at a 3900 rating then no.

Avatar of PawnTsunami

If you can think like a computer, go for it.  Unfortunately, for humans not blended with machines, that is not possible.  Stockfish calculated thousands of positions every few seconds (millions of you have a strong enough computer).  You will be lucky if you can calculate 3-4 long lines accurately.

Avatar of CrypticPassage

Has Max Deutsch finished his algorithm yet?

Avatar of blueemu

Computers examine millions of positions per second.

Can you?

Avatar of CraigIreland

Nope. Computers are good at calculation. Humans are good at ideas. As humans we make huge shortcuts using our neural networks referencing prior learning, to prune the calculations down to a tiny fraction of what an engine makes. Your goal as a human player (and arguably a human in the more general sense), is to train that neural network, not to try to run a traditional computer program on your mind. If you want to try to compete with a computer on calculation power then you're a hundred years or more, too late 

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CraigIreland wrote:

Nope. Computers are good at calculation. Humans are good at ideas. As humans we make huge shortcuts using our neural networks referencing prior learning, to prune the calculations down to a tiny fraction of what an engine makes. Your goal as a human player (and arguably a human in the more general sense), is to train that neural network, not to try to run a traditional computer program on your mind.

Engines calculate everything.  Humans calculate candidate moves. 

Avatar of EricErbe

The simple answer is likely not, simply due to the fact that nobody is even close to being as smart as a computer and people just don't have the capacity of a computer(for chess).

However, You can find and learn patterns using a computer. I have performed better at tournaments after learning patterns such as the windmill and when a queen sack is a bad idea. 

Don't try to play like a computer, learn from them.