Author: Graham Banks
Date: 01:30:22 04/28/01
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On April 27, 2001 at 23:07:31, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Yes, you're probably right about today's top programs being strong enough, but no way back in 1994-95. That's apart from the logistical problems one would have had in running a position overnight and managing to keep a large number of games going in this manner. Graham.
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