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Computer Chess Online
by Dave Felton
If you are a fan of chess, computers and the internet then, what could be better than computer chess online?
Chess has been around a long time and ever since its inception people have devised methods of notation to enable them to play each other despite great distances separating them. However, it is only during recent times, due to advances in communications technology, that we have near instantaneous worldwide communications. The internet means that people can now play each other whilst spread all over the world. Chess online is one area of the game that has grown at a fast pace over recent years.
Similar technological advances have meant that home computer chess programs are now as powerful and indeed arguably more powerful than the world chess champion. It is only the reticence of the world's top Grand Masters (GMs) to play competitive chess against computers that leaves the issue in any doubt. There is no doubt, however, that these same Grand Masters have played against these computer programs in their own homes. Perhaps the top GMs already know the outcome of these possible matches and this is why they avoid them?
Computer chess programs are used today to analyse openings and look for tactical novelties in well-known variations. They are used to assess the play of even the best players, although in this case the analysis is often carried out by an array of multi-core computers rather than anything that might otherwise resemble a home PC.
It might be thought that those employing such hardware and software packages for analysis have an insurmountable edge, but this is not so. It is of course true that better processing capability will deepen analysis, but it does not change the quality of the analysis.
The best commercial chess engine in the world costs less than a good meal for two and will run on any modern PC. The quality of the analysis produced will be the same as the most expensive setup, but it will just take longer to achieve the same level of insight. Whatever setup is employed, the current world computer chess champion is rated higher than the top human player, when using the Elo system that provides statistical analysis of player strength. It must therefore be supposed that the advice it gives will be more tactically effective than the analysis of the human player receiving it, thus aiding his improvement.
It is in this last area that chess computers really excel: training humans to play tactically stronger chess.
Most modern computer chess software can also be used to train a player. This might be done by adjusting its playing strength to a lower level to suit the player, offering positions for analysis, setting chess puzzles in which the computer will be the opponent, or by restricting opening moves to a particular tree of opening options, in order to teach them to a player attempting to learn the opening in question.
What is possibly more remarkable than the capabilities of these computer chess programs is the fact that many of them are totally free. The programmers that make some of these silicon monsters choose to give them away for free and this is a great service to improving the level at which the game of chess is currently played.
About the Author
Dave Felton is the owner of a new computerchessonline.net gaming site at: computerchessonline.net
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