Author: Paulo Soares
Date: 14:53:57 09/18/00
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On September 18, 2000 at 10:29:34, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On September 18, 2000 at 02:45:34, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On September 17, 2000 at 23:25:26, Martin Grabriel wrote: >> >>>On September 17, 2000 at 22:32:16, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >>> >>>>Some of my friends ask why do we need to get the >>>>latest copy of the WMCC Champion, or the #1 in SSDF... it really doesn't make >>>>any sense to us, common chess players. What are the differences in analysys >>>>mode? Is there such a great difference? I'd really want to know what you guys >>>>think. >>>> >>>>A. Ponti >>> >>> >>>I think, for many of us, buying the latest is just an addiction... >>>Personally, I will be tempted to buy only if a new version comes with new and >>>unique features, or at least significant improvements in GUI. Mere increase in >>>engine strength doesn't make sense (i.e. doesn't merit a buy) as I am not a >>>master or grandmaster who is out to play against stronger and stronger programs, >>>or able to appreciate program style or analysis fully. >> >>You do not need to be a master but only to play in a correspondence tournament >>when using chess programs is allowed. >> >>I intend to buy a new program when the final of the correspondence championship >>of Israel begins. >> >>Uri > >Although I don't know what your playing strength is, I can understand the use of >chess programs (where allowed) in correspondence chess if you are a strong >enough player to not just blindly send the program's move suggestion to your >opponent but to consider the program's move as an alternative to the one you >were considering. In the case of the "common" chess player, myself included, I >think it makes more sense to succeed or fail on your own (and perhaps to enter >only correspondence events where computers are disallowed [but, alas, not >enforceable]). > >Steve A new type of chess player is appearing, whose main characteristic is the one of having a program to help him in the analyses. I believe that in the future we will have more tournaments of advanced chess. In the correspondence chess, in some countries, the use of programs it is already allowed. I don't play a chess game there are 6 years, and I stopped of playing correspondence chess 7 years ago. The pleasure that I have today with the chess is to test the programs in some test suites, analyze positions and to accompany GMs games with the aid of programs. I don't use a chess board there are several years, my chess board is the display of my computer, even if I am analyzing a position without the aid of a program. Paulo Soares, from Brazil
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