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Training #1 with Super Eval
I reached a respectable rating of 2000 on chess.com early on in 2024, and I was very excited to have reached this milestone. But this excitement quickly started to diminish as I was just unable to gain rating and improve, and because of this, for the next 7 months, I struggled to even stay in the 2000 range. I have since recognized my plateau as a result of my tendency to not think too much and just use my intuition. So I decided I wanted to change this. After looking online, I came across an article from felew699, who started trying to beat strong engines through the use of a rigorous thought process. As I needed to work on my thought process anyway, I decided to find out what he was capable of, and to make things simple, I was impressed. In his games against level 8 stockfish on Lichess, he was playing long games with a very high degree of accuracy, and on a few occasions, he was even able to draw the computer.I decided to take part in his mission to provide competition for the computer as it would both be an exciting challenge and in may even allow me to grow as a chess player. But before I can ever hope to compete, I must first practice and train with the felew699's thought process, called Super Eval. Here's his article detailing the process: https://lichess.org/@/felew699/blog/against-stockfish-game-11-i-did-it/pJNga7XW.
Anyway, my plan to train and practice with Super Eval is to play an 1800 level bot on chess.com, then a 1900 bot, then a 2000 bot, and so on, until I reach max level, where by then, I should have had enough practice to effectively use Super Eval against the computer. And with this long introduction out of the way, here is the first training game against chess.com 1800 computer.
In this game, the post-game analysis, says that I had 3 inaccuracies, and 1 missed checkmate in 7 moves. Overall, I was given a score of 93%. This may not be the best accuracy, but compared to my normal 80-85%, this is a noticeable improvement. I hope to improve a lot and will post my training game against the 1900 chess.com bot soon.
If you are interested in the idea of training to fight against the computer, consider joining The Club of Believers. Not many people have joined, and every member makes our goal more and more reachable.
Thank you for reading, and enjoy the rest of your day!