Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:07:42 05/25/02
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On May 25, 2002 at 13:35:05, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On May 25, 2002 at 05:07:17, Uri Blass wrote: > >Dear Uri, > >>I think that this is mainly the case with higher rated correspondence players. >>I believe that most 2200-2300 correspondence players or not use a computer or >>use programs only for a short time. > >You have no proof of that. It is just a guess. I play corr. chess for over 15 >years and I know that almost all players use PC programs. From the 1800 ranks >until the 2600+ ranks. > >Jeroen I think that it may be dependent if you play correspondence games by mail or by email. I suspect that people who play correspondence games by email use more PC programs. My experience against a player who play by mail and had a correspondence rating of more than 2300 suggest that he did not use a computer(He did a tactical mistake that a computer has no problem to avoid even at short time control) . I know that I won correspondence games against players with correspondence rating of more than 2500 and I got the feeling that the fact that my computer outsearched their computers helped me to win the game. I agree that there are players with rating of 1800-2600 who use computers based on reports from a friend but the main reason is the fact that the rating system is broken. It may be interesting to see statistics about the results of players in correspondence games based on the difference in rating. I am not going to be surprised if you find that players that are weaker than their opponents by more than 400 elo score more than 25%. In this case it means that rating means almost nothing in correspondence games and it is better not to give players rating in correspondence games. Uri
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