(04-01-2019, 05:28 PM)The Real Marty Wrote: Something that is really starting to annoy me is the realization that my chess ability is limited.  I'm playing an online computer program which has 10 levels, I've reached level 6, and the computer has kicked my [BLEEP] about 30 times in a row and I don't seem to be getting any better.   This thing throws combinations at me that I don't see coming.   It'll sacrifice a piece and let me think I'm winning, and yet it still beats me.   And I'll go back and try to replay using various different lines, and there's no way out of getting checkmated.   It's really disheartening.

Well, the beauty of the game is the complexity, but if you really want to improve try notating the game, then going back and replaying from the opening.  Alternatively, try playing two games simultaneously, one as black and one as white.  Copy the computer's white opening move as your white and take the second game's (black) move back as your black move.  Now you have the computer playing itself.  Watch and learn.

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