Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:48:28 06/23/01
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On June 23, 2001 at 19:08:41, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On June 23, 2001 at 18:20:19, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I disagree. >>Memory is something that is allowed to be used in chess. > >Noone claimed otherwise. > >>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. > >Noone claimed that either. > >>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 best GM's don't do like you suggest. > >>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. > >I doubt they get the move on a piece of paper with the instruction: Play it! But >what do I know. This _absolutely_ happens. In a WC match, after a sealed move/adjourned game, the GMs go to bed, their "seconds" stay up all night analyzing the position, and the next morning they show their GM the analysis on how to win, or draw the position. The GM commits it to memory and off he goes to the board to play those moves he has _never_ seen before. > >>It is not against the Fide rules. > >Of course not. > >>It is not cheating. > >I'll try adding a smiley the next time. > >Mogens.
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