Author: Graham Banks
Date: 18:45:47 04/27/01
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I have had an ongoing interest in computer chess since some of the early dedicated chess computers came out. In 1990 I took up correspondence chess as attending a chess club became difficult at the time. I found that I was a far better correspondence player than I could ever hope to be over the board. It was a great thrill for me when I won the national championship in 1994-95 and even got some games in the Chessbase database. However I always had to put up with people who wrongly assumed that I must have used computer programs to assist me in achieving this. I wonder if any others on the forum have had this problem? It just didn't seem to occur to people that chess programs of that time and probably still today would not have been able to do well at a high level of correspondence play. The thing that always annoyed me most though was that I never used a computer at all to help me with my correspondence chess. I was extremely proud of what I had achieved, but these people spoiled it through there incorrect gossip and assumptions. Graham.
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