I took a look at your most recent game.
After looking at that opening, I see no evidence that anybody is memorizing much of anything. And after seeing you overlook a hanging queen, I can't blame it on computers.
What is the impact of technology on chess? (pros and cons)
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Technology has meant you have a wide range of learning resources and opponents that you can access any time of day from the comfort of your own home, that to me outweighs any negatives
notmtwain wrote:
I took a look at your most recent game.
After looking at that opening, I see no evidence that anybody is memorizing much of anything. And after seeing you overlook a hanging queen, I can't blame it on computers.
Thanks for your response. Perhaps my original post was misunderstood. I clearly stated I was a beginner and reviving my passion for chess; I'm going to leave hanging queens, I'm going to miss forks, and I'm going to make mistakes. I'm not trying to blame computers at all. In fact I'm leveraging them to analyze and get better. But in my pursuit of that, I can see how it may lend toward memorizing the most statistically prudent paths, which I am nowhere near. My thought was solidified after watching "Magnus", a documentary on Netflix about Magnus Carlsen. It showed how Vishy, the current world champion back then, studied computer output and Magnus' goal was to get him in a position where "he had to think for himself." So it made me wonder if the play has boiled down to memorization.
oneor11 wrote:
I don't really see any cons that technology has had on improving how well we play the game, but I do see many cons in my personal enjoyment of the game.
I'm a beginner, just resurrecting my passion for chess from 20 years ago. Back then, computers were prevalent and chess software did exist. As a kid I played my first chess game against the computer on a Tandy 1000 HX with 512KB of RAM and no hard drive. But the state of computer intervention in chess then pales in comparison to what it is today, where this very website can analyze one's play against thousands of play lines. It goes further to even give one a Computer Aggregated Precision Score (CAPS), which measures how well a human does against what the computer calculates as the best move.
On one hand I think this is helping me get a lot better at chess. However, I can't help but think: Is this the beginning of the end for the magic of chess? Is the advanced technology around the game pushing people away from strategy and psychology in favor of just rote memorization of the best moves on any given line? Are we eventually going to move toward a CAPS score that simply measures how well one follows a pre-defined/computed list of computer output?
What do you see as the pros and cons of technology in chess?
I'm a beginner, just resurrecting my passion for chess from 20 years ago. Back then, computers were prevalent and chess software did exist. As a kid I played my first chess game against the computer on a Tandy 1000 HX with 512KB of RAM and no hard drive. But the state of computer intervention in chess then pales in comparison to what it is today, where this very website can analyze one's play against thousands of play lines. It goes further to even give one a Computer Aggregated Precision Score (CAPS), which measures how well a human does against what the computer calculates as the best move.
On one hand I think this is helping me get a lot better at chess. However, I can't help but think: Is this the beginning of the end for the magic of chess? Is the advanced technology around the game pushing people away from strategy and psychology in favor of just rote memorization of the best moves on any given line? Are we eventually going to move toward a CAPS score that simply measures how well one follows a pre-defined/computed list of computer output?
What do you see as the pros and cons of technology in chess?