Author: Robin Smith
Date: 23:03:37 09/03/01
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On September 04, 2001 at 01:51:12, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Hi Uri, I wasn't talking about what you do. You clearly use human judgement, otherwise how can you decided which program to believe? And of course I agree, if you are doing anything with a computer, more time is better than less time. But people who blindly follow computer advice are often easy pickings for me. Robin
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