Author: Uri Blass
Date: 22:51:12 09/03/01
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On September 04, 2001 at 01:45:37, Robin Smith wrote: >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 I believe that still using more time is productive. Note that I do not play always the move of the same program and there are even rare cases when I do not play a move of the programs but with the same method with less computer time I believe that my result could be worse. Uri
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