Author: Uri Blass
Date: 20:07:31 04/27/01
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On April 27, 2001 at 21:45:47, Graham Banks wrote: >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. I believe that today's programs can do well in correspondence games. I believe that you need more than today's programs to become the world champion but they are enough to get the IM title and maybe even for the GM title if you use them for a long time in the way that I suggest(they give practical chances against GM's). The level of today's correspondence games is higher because of computers and I guess that you are going have to get problems to win the national championship of your country again without the help of computers because I guess that part of your opponents use computers to help them(There is no way to force people not to do it and a low against computers is not effective against people who want to cheat). Uri
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