Author: Robin Smith
Date: 22:45:37 09/03/01
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On September 03, 2001 at 19:26:41, Jeroen van Dorp wrote: >>I'm not trying to get you in trouble or give you a hard time, but is this a >>common way of playing correspondence chess? Do the opponents know that they are >>playing againt a computer? Do they care? > >This subject has come up before, and it seems most correspondence competitions >have surrendered to using computers. > >Each should have fun like they want to, but - >It must be boring to death - beating your opponents because your computer >calculates longer. > >But hey, if you like computer correspondence chess - it might be fun. >I hope that there will stay some places around where you still won't find an >opponent with a pc, but just a human brain. If it's lost, I'm sure going to miss >it. > >J. There is a LOT more to top level correspondence chess than running some program longer than the other guy. People who rely solely on computers in correspondence chess are often refered to in correspondence chess circles as "postmen", because they deliver the mail for their computers. I LOVE to play against postmen. They are generally easy targets. Robin Smith
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