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Subject: Re: I believe that chess programs are at IM level in correspondence games

Author: blass uri

Date: 12:09:00 05/28/00

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On May 28, 2000 at 14:29:14, stuart taylor wrote:

>Interesting to know. So keep the secret!  I suppose correspondence players are
>still expected to be better than machines, but I think that would only be true
>-with the addition- of machine help.

practically most of the players who use machines to help them do not give them
hours to analyze and human+machine when the machine use only some minutes per
move is usually not better than machine that use some hours per move.

>  But anyway the organizers are clever enough not to give big prizes for
>correspondence champions-aren't they?

Yes

people cannot earn money from correspondence games(In most of the cases there
are no money prizes and even if there is a small prize I believe that people do
not do it for the money)

Uri



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