Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 23:38:01 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, > >Hi Uri, > >To use computers in correspondence chess and only trust their opinion, is >probably the worst you can do. Yes, you are 100% right. >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. I agree, but people wants to win and they try everything to do so. > >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. Yes, yuo are correct. I do not play correspondance chess, but I do the same working on the openings. There are things the computers do not understand or they evaluate wrongly. > >My opinion: Use your own imagination and positional feeling, check it out with >the help of the computer, but NEVER play computer moves only. Yes, you are correct, but I am afraid you are fighting a lost war in this case. >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! Again I think this is a lost war. Ciao Jeroen and take care of yourself. Sandro > >Jeroen > > > >>I believe that a lot of chess players do the same mistake in correspondence >>chess when they can use computers to help them when they do not give their >>programs a long time to search or do not trust the computer move and use it only >>to avoid tactical mistakes. >> >>I play almost always computer moves in my correspondence games when I only >>decide the programs that I use and often I do not use more than 1 program. >> >>If I use more than 1 program I decide which program to trust. >> >>I do analysis by going backward and forward but I almost never play a move that >>is not suggested by at least one of my programs. >> >>Uri
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