Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 11:23:14 08/15/98
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Dear friend: My experience is not related with postal chess, but I observe myself enough to realize that increments of thinking time even in the course of a normal game has an enormous effect. Probably that happens because the way we think. We don't do too much more calculations, but we can perceive in a better way the position. We can get a better gestalt, an understannding of the situation that is qualitatively above the precedent one. I insist we "can", not we must. Computers just get more stuff from his calculations and althought that involves, also, a better perfomance, I suppose his increments are lesser than they are in our case, with the exceoption, of course, of specific positions where specific tactical shots appears just after a ply level has been reached. But then, if we play much better with more time and computer play "just" somewhat better, then the conclusion is that for a computer to become a master in postal chess is a lot more difficult than to be one in normal competition. But this is very complex. Probable there are as lot of exceptions. Specuially I am thinking in the fact that better undesrstanding not always involves better results. At the end a great fraction of chess games are won or lost on tactical ground, no matter what. If so, perhaps computer keep his edge over us anyway. But, at the same time, postal chess is less prone to tactical mishaps. Well, this issue, as you see, arise more questions than answers. fernando
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