How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess

Computers have permeated almost every facet of modern chess, yet few players know how to gain the maximum benefit from working with them. Computers function as playing partners, opening study tools, endgame 'oracles', tactics trainers, sources of information on opponents and searchable game databases. Kongsted provides practical advice on how to use computers in all these ways and more. He also takes a look at the history of the chess computer, and how its 'thinking' methods have developed since the early days. The book features an investigation of human vs. machine contests, including the recent Kasparov vs. Deep Junior and Kramnik vs. Deep Fritz matches, in which honours ended even. more

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-10-2006; Useful, well written book, maybe a little lightweight in terms of improving your chess; Note: This review first published in the Irish Chess Journal, February 2006How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess is a book that will appeal to rather a lot of chess players. From the upper echelons of the super-GMs polishing their...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-10-2004; Good for improving your chess; This book taught me a lot about how to use computers for improving in chess. It speaks about ChessBase and Chess Assistant and a few others, about how to use databases and playing programs for chess training. There is also an interesting...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-25-2004; Wrong title; I agree with the introduction and the first part of the book "History of Computer Chess" (About 18 pages). But then, The author spends 2/3 of the book trying to explain how to beat your computer! Only a minimal part tries to explain what...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-09-2004; Nice ideas!; This book tells you how computers think and points out their strong points and weaknesses. It explains how to use the computer for learning. Though sometimes it was not clear in a few places.A good book.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Feb-10-2006; Useful, well written book, maybe a little lightweight in terms of improving your chess; Note: This review first published in the Irish Chess Journal, February 2006How to Use Computers to Improve Your Chess is a book that will appeal to rather a lot of chess players. From the upper echelons of the super-GMs polishing their...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-25-2004; Wrong title; I agree with the introduction and the first part of the book "History of Computer Chess" (About 18 pages). But then, The author spends 2/3 of the book trying to explain how to beat your computer! Only a minimal part tries to explain what...; read full review | report as inappropriate