[Responsibility2nd]

Over the last six weeks or so I have begun playing chess against an AI. I will win only playing on a very basic beginner level. But when I increase my level, I lose badly. So I add on helps and hints.

It amazes me that the computer will instruct me not to take an easy piece and it amazes me the computer will often let me leave a knight or a bishop exposed. But I take the hints and I move as directed, and I am finding I win now more often than I lose.

I’ve known the basics of playing chess for well over 50 years. I’m now returning to it with a higher degree of interest

[fireman15]

Over the last six weeks or so I have begun playing chess against an AI. I will win only playing on a very basic beginner level. But when I increase my level, I lose badly. So I add on helps and hints.

I do not know if the helps an hints really help that much. For me I think it was the repetition. The level of sophistication of the programming in the little Radio Shack chess board that I used to play with was obviously less than today's programs, but that might have even been helpful in that it allowed me to recognize patterns more easily.

[fireman15]

This is a picture of the Radio Shack Tandy 1650 Computerized Sensory Chess Game that I used to play with when I was bored or trying to relax. It was from the mid 1980s.

Radio Shack Tandy 1650 Computerized Sensory Chess Game: