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Subject: Re: Gravy for the brain that supports a 2500+ elo standard for computer GM's

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:20:19 06/23/01

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On June 23, 2001 at 17:20:17, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On June 23, 2001 at 14:06:14, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I believe that there are also grandmaster who are guided by similiar statistics
>>in a lot of cases because they have not time to analyze everything they
>>remember.
>
>That may be true, I don't know.
>
>>Do you think that they cheat?
>
>Yes, I guess you can say that they do. If they've played the move on a board and
>contemplated the usefulness of the move, even without extensive analysis, then
>it's not "cheating".

I disagree.
Memory is something that is allowed to be used in chess.

There is nothing wrong with remembering a lot of theory lines without
understanding the reason that lines are evaluated as advantage for one side when
you start to think only when you have no moves in your memory.

I do not do it but not because I consider it as cheating but only because my
memory is not good enough to read a theory book and to remember everything
without thinking about it.

I believe that part of the talent of the best GM's is also to do it and to save
time in the clock.

The source of the lines should be of course something that they can trust and
it is possible that finding these lines is the job of other humans that they
hired when these humans use chess programs and their own knowledge to find the
lines.

It is not against the Fide rules.
It is not cheating.

Uri



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