Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:58:09 05/15/01
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On May 15, 2001 at 14:31:44, Uri Blass wrote: >On May 15, 2001 at 14:20:06, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: > >>>I also can decide to play a move that was not suggested by my programs but I >>>usually do not do it and I guess that I am going to do it in less than 1% of the >>>cases. >> >> >>I think Bob means that the name suggests "correspondence chess" but that it's >>really at least an advanced chess match and even more, a computer chess >>tournament. >> >>So this is allowed in the correspondence chess competition you play? >>Most, if not all, forbid engine assistance. >> >>J. >I think that most allow engine assistance. >It is allowed by the Israeli rules and it is clearly allowed in correspondence >games by the ICCF rules that is the international organization of correspondence >games. > >Bob Hyatt can test his program in correspondence games when part of the >opponents use computers to help them and part of the opponents do not use >computers because they do not want to do it inspite of having the right to do >it. > >Chess programs can play correspondence games against humans,computers and teams >of humans and computers in the ICCF tournaments but it seems that most >programmers are not interested in playing there. > >Uri I don't question the practice of playing in a computer-chess correspondence tournament. I don't understand what the "human" gets out of correspondence today since everybody uses a computer, apparently. IE do you go to a roller-skate race, and have small two-cycle model airplane engines on the skates to make you faster than everyone else? When you enter a swim competition, do you strap on an electric backpack with a motor in it? I suppose I am simply missing the point. On occasion _I_ want to compete (and win) on my own, to say _I_ did it.
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