This makes a lot of sense to me: when you play stronger opponents, you get better faster. You can learn and improve from playing weaker players, but it is necessary to put more time and effort into the learning process.
OTOH, if the gap between yourself and the opponent is too large, then learning becomes difficult again. When I've played IMs and GMs, my experience has been that everything was going fine, and then the sky fell down!
Meanwhile, for those of us who have "geekish" social skills, maybe ChatGPT can be our salvation!
Human chess is partly about tactics and strategy, but mostly about memory
This makes a lot of sense to me: when you play stronger opponents, you get better faster. You can learn and improve from playing weaker players, but it is necessary to put more time and effort into the learning process.
OTOH, if the gap between yourself and the opponent is too large, then learning becomes difficult again. When I've played IMs and GMs, my experience has been that everything was going fine, and then the sky fell down!
Meanwhile, for those of us who have "geekish" social skills, maybe ChatGPT can be our salvation!
Humans learn from engines not only by playing but also by analyzing games with them so the advantage of engines in improving playing strength of humans can be bigger than the advantage of only playing against stronger opponents.
This makes a lot of sense to me: when you play stronger opponents, you get better faster. You can learn and improve from playing weaker players, but it is necessary to put more time and effort into the learning process.
OTOH, if the gap between yourself and the opponent is too large, then learning becomes difficult again. When I've played IMs and GMs, my experience has been that everything was going fine, and then the sky fell down!
Meanwhile, for those of us who have "geekish" social skills, maybe ChatGPT can be our salvation!
Humans learn from engines not only by playing but also by analyzing games with them so the advantage of engines in improving playing strength of humans can be bigger than the advantage of only playing against stronger opponents.
Very good point.
Human chess is partly about tactics and strategy, but mostly about memory
As far as I remember, after losing to AlphaGo this human champion made a streak of some dozens consecutive wins against strong humans (high dans level). His retirement was not immediately caused by losing the match.
As far as I remember, after losing to AlphaGo this human champion made a streak of some dozens consecutive wins against strong humans (high dans level). His retirement was not immediately caused by losing the match.
