Originally Posted by Iconoclast
Yes, Using computers to improve your chess strength is like using steroids to increase your physical strength.
Chess books are bad enough, but computers are further wrecking chess as a human game.
Chillax man! Someone has to remind you that we now live in the 21st C. Your attitude is very much 19th C stuff. Do you suggest that our junior champs are just computer geeks who do nothing else than memorising engine lines? Have you ever watched GM Johansen coaching the kids at BHCC? You will be amazed by the stuff they study and the positions they have to work out then and there! On the black board! IN FRIGGING CLASS! No computers involved! Get over it!