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Ten lessons I learned from Stockfish

A lot of these "principles" were not really principles but really observations about a position. To be clear on my stance, I think stockfish is useful to most players, the issue is when people conflate looking at stockfish with learning something. Looking at stockfish is useful but only if you understand the reason behind the move. In many of these examples you simply give the stockfish move without any explanation of why or what the move is doing. It is the problem that I think many players face. "Ah I should have played d5 here...good" but why should have? feels to me you need to look deeper.

I use stockfish a lot, and think lower level player should too. But they need to be careful to really put thought into why its played. That is why people say, 'don't use stockfish', most players are not equipped to decode the oracle's sayings.

A lot of these "principles" were not really principles but really observations about a position. To be clear on my stance, I think stockfish is useful to most players, the issue is when people conflate looking at stockfish with learning something. Looking at stockfish is useful but only if you understand the reason behind the move. In many of these examples you simply give the stockfish move without any explanation of why or what the move is doing. It is the problem that I think many players face. "Ah I should have played d5 here...good" but why should have? feels to me you need to look deeper. I use stockfish a lot, and think lower level player should too. But they need to be careful to really put thought into why its played. That is why people say, 'don't use stockfish', most players are not equipped to decode the oracle's sayings.