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Subject: Re: Insomniac downs Shredder in round 3!

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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