Nice! Yeah after Leela is down to a couple of pieces the game is usually over. But I’ve had to learn not to be lazy at this point because a couple of times it managed to force a stalemate.
As a child I read everything I could get my hands on! Mostly a couple of Silman’s books. The appeal to me was quantifying and systematizing strategy, not chess itself (which I bounced off in favor of sports and math contests). E.g. the idea of exploiting imbalances, or planning by backchaining, or some of the specific skills like putting your knights in the right place.
I found these more interesting than Go books in this respect, both due to Silman’s writing style and because Go is such a complicated game filled with exceptions that Go books get bogged down in specifics.
Nice! Yeah after Leela is down to a couple of pieces the game is usually over. But I’ve had to learn not to be lazy at this point because a couple of times it managed to force a stalemate.
Why have you read chess books?
As a child I read everything I could get my hands on! Mostly a couple of Silman’s books. The appeal to me was quantifying and systematizing strategy, not chess itself (which I bounced off in favor of sports and math contests). E.g. the idea of exploiting imbalances, or planning by backchaining, or some of the specific skills like putting your knights in the right place.
I found these more interesting than Go books in this respect, both due to Silman’s writing style and because Go is such a complicated game filled with exceptions that Go books get bogged down in specifics.