Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:14:08 05/27/01
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On May 27, 2001 at 02:36:43, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >On May 26, 2001 at 18:38:26, Uri Blass wrote: > >Hi Uri, > >To use computers in correspondence chess and only trust their opinion, is >probably the worst you can do. I play correspondence chess myself and I am >always happy to see my opponent fully rely on computer moves. In the first >place, one can argue if this is fair, by any chance: People using computers are >quite destructive for correspondence chess, as it has nothing to do with the >game anymore. In fact, we now seem to have tournaments in which only computers >play, instead of humans. And IMO this is very, very bad. > >But that is another discussion. In my life I played many games against 'computer >guys' and I won almost all of them. Never lost a game! Computers simply do not >understand many types of positions and I can always take advantage of the >weaknesses of chess programs to good use. As soon as I have the impression my >opponent is a computer program, I am going to change my stragegy and look for >moves and/or ideas in which computers fail. This is not difficult at all. If it is the case then how rebel won an open tournament when everything was allowed(humans,computers and team of humans and computers) It was not a correspondence tournament but the time control was 3 hours per game. I also do not trust the same computer all the time and I decide which program to trust. I believe that positions that all the programs do not undersand are rare in practical games. I have good results with this strategy. I can add also that I have time advantage relative to my opponents because I play less games(I finished 3 out of 8 games and I play only 5 correspondence games) > >My opinion: Use your own imagination and positional feeling, check it out with >the help of the computer, but NEVER play computer moves only. This is not only >good for correspondence chess, but also for yourself. If not, you should have >the moral duty to tell the organisers that a computer is playing and not >yourself! > >Jeroen It is not exactly correct. 1)I choose which program to trust and in part of the cases I give more than 1 program to analyze the position before deciding about it. 2)I usually play computer moves and usually is in more than 99% of the cases. Usually is not always. Uri
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