Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:15:26 01/31/02
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On January 31, 2002 at 17:16:10, Marc van Hal wrote: >On January 31, 2002 at 17:08:29, Frank Nelson wrote: > >>I first started playing postal chess after a recommendation by a SM. My rating >>was consistently initially between 1675 - 1775 uscf. I noticed that in 1993-1994 >>I lost about 10 games in less than 10 moves. My opponents were always saying >>regards after mailing me their postcards. Something stinks I thought. There was >>one opponent in a trophy quad who I had 4 games with. I lost 2 of the games in >>under 10 moves. In the other 2 I noticed that my opponent seemed to act like >>ChessMaster 3000. True enough as my investigation deepen it was verified that my >>opponent was using ChessMaster (probably letting it run about 2 hours) and >>mailing me a card the same day that it was received. I turned the tables on my >>opponent by using ChessMaster about 2.5 hours reaching victory in one game and a >>draw in the other. At the time my opponent was rated 1725 uscf postal and later >>in 1996 I noticed my opponent rating was over 2100 uscf postal. It is my opinion >>that if a person pays money to play in a tournament whether OTB or postal he has >>a right to commend on how the tournament was conducted or runned. >>After a review of some of those correspondence chess games I lost in under 10 >>moves I suspected M-Chess, Fritz, and Genius as the programs used to generate >>moves. Some of the older more experienced players at the chess club I used to >>belong to told me that they don't play postal because of computers. Now I know >>what it was that they were alluding to. I have decided that postal chess is for >>people who wants to win trophies and money for their computers and it not for >>me. >> >>Ljubomir Nelson > >Notice using a chessprogram alone is not enough to make you a postal champion. >Regards Marc van Hal It depends on the country that you live. It is not enough to make you the world champion but it may be enough to win national championship. I used also my brain but I was very careful with it and the main use of it was in choosing which program to believe and cases when I chose no computer moves were rare. I believe that if you use a computer for every opponent(something that I did not do) and you are careful not to trust the opening book except positions when there are hundreds of games in the database you may get the GM title in correspondence games. Uri
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