@Iceman1point1 #24
There are several drawbacks with only working with a chess engine for your chess improvement.
The chess engine can only talk variations, and cannot give you human chess explanations.
That also means that a chess engine cannot teach you "simple chess" as a chess engine will usually go for the highest evaluation score.
Where a human master would simplify a position, and go for a totally won pawn endgame, the chess engine will continue playing in a complex position where it is just one pawn, and will have to defend for some time with "crazy" defensive moves.
That is not practical human chess, and it will be bad for your chess development if you continue to thoughtlessly only follow chess engine hints.
It is, for a human being, usually much easier and less tiring to play moves that you understand, rather than be calculating the whole time.
Some time ago I attended a training with GM Matthew Sadler.
He said that for one tournament (Where he play against Kramnik amongst others) he prepared by going over the games of former world champion Capablanca. From those games Sadler learned a thing or two, and applied that in his games, and got a great tournament result !
It is better to use a chess engine to check for tactical mistakes in your games, and not much more.
Creative chess players, like GM Jobava, and IM Manuel Bosboom, do not use chess engines very much at all to prepare their chess game.
If you read the interview with GM Jobava, you will see that the winning opening novelty against GM Bareev was not the "computer's best choice".
CB News - Living life the Jobi way (1/2)
en.chessbase.com/post/living-life-the-jobi-way-1-2CB News - Living life the Jobi way (2/2)
en.chessbase.com/post/living-life-the-jobi-way-2-2