Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:43:42 09/04/01
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On September 04, 2001 at 02:03:37, Robin Smith wrote: >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. > I have never played correspondence chess, but if I did, and if it was clear that is was perfectly OK to use computers for help, I think I'd take this apporach: I'd study the position without any computers for a significant length of time, pick my top move choice and a couple of alternatives, then use the computer to tactically "debug" my choice(s) and also to tell me if I'd missed a MUCH better tactical move. Unless it had a clear tactical win that I hadn't seen without its help, I would not let it pick a move for me -- then I would feel like I wasn't really playing the game myself. However, I can imagine real value in using it to find tactical errors in the lines I've chosen, so I can then reject a given move and try my next-favorite selection.
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