Author: Jeroen Noomen
Date: 23:36:43 05/26/01
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On May 26, 2001 at 18:38:26, Uri Blass wrote: Hi Uri, To use computers in correspondence chess and only trust their opinion, is probably the worst you can do. I play correspondence chess myself and I am always happy to see my opponent fully rely on computer moves. In the first place, one can argue if this is fair, by any chance: People using computers are quite destructive for correspondence chess, as it has nothing to do with the game anymore. In fact, we now seem to have tournaments in which only computers play, instead of humans. And IMO this is very, very bad. But that is another discussion. In my life I played many games against 'computer guys' and I won almost all of them. Never lost a game! Computers simply do not understand many types of positions and I can always take advantage of the weaknesses of chess programs to good use. As soon as I have the impression my opponent is a computer program, I am going to change my stragegy and look for moves and/or ideas in which computers fail. This is not difficult at all. My opinion: Use your own imagination and positional feeling, check it out with the help of the computer, but NEVER play computer moves only. This is not only good for correspondence chess, but also for yourself. If not, you should have the moral duty to tell the organisers that a computer is playing and not yourself! Jeroen >I believe that a lot of chess players do the same mistake in correspondence >chess when they can use computers to help them when they do not give their >programs a long time to search or do not trust the computer move and use it only >to avoid tactical mistakes. > >I play almost always computer moves in my correspondence games when I only >decide the programs that I use and often I do not use more than 1 program. > >If I use more than 1 program I decide which program to trust. > >I do analysis by going backward and forward but I almost never play a move that >is not suggested by at least one of my programs. > >Uri
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