Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:06:50 01/31/02
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On January 31, 2002 at 17:46:19, Roy Eassa wrote: >On January 31, 2002 at 17:08:29, Frank Nelson wrote: > >>I first started playing postal chess after a recommendation by a SM. My rating >>was consistently initially between 1675 - 1775 uscf. I noticed that in 1993-1994 >>I lost about 10 games in less than 10 moves. My opponents were always saying >>regards after mailing me their postcards. Something stinks I thought. There was >>one opponent in a trophy quad who I had 4 games with. I lost 2 of the games in >>under 10 moves. In the other 2 I noticed that my opponent seemed to act like >>ChessMaster 3000. True enough as my investigation deepen it was verified that my >>opponent was using ChessMaster (probably letting it run about 2 hours) and >>mailing me a card the same day that it was received. I turned the tables on my >>opponent by using ChessMaster about 2.5 hours reaching victory in one game and a >>draw in the other. At the time my opponent was rated 1725 uscf postal and later >>in 1996 I noticed my opponent rating was over 2100 uscf postal. It is my opinion >>that if a person pays money to play in a tournament whether OTB or postal he has >>a right to commend on how the tournament was conducted or runned. >>After a review of some of those correspondence chess games I lost in under 10 >>moves I suspected M-Chess, Fritz, and Genius as the programs used to generate >>moves. Some of the older more experienced players at the chess club I used to >>belong to told me that they don't play postal because of computers. Now I know >>what it was that they were alluding to. I have decided that postal chess is for >>people who wants to win trophies and money for their computers and it not for >>me. >> >>Ljubomir Nelson > > >Nowadays, at least some people openly admit to using a computer in postal chess. > One person who frequently posts in this forum is a champion postal player (not >in the USA though) who uses a computer. In fact, as I recall, he says his >biggest advantage over his opponents, who probably also use computers, is that >he lets the computer think longer on each move. > >I assume that today it's not considered a bad thing to use computers in postal >chess. Can I also assume, from your posting, that at one time it was illegal? I believe that in the championship of USA it is illegal but in international tournament it is legal and also in many national tournaments like the israeli championship it is legal. I finished my game with 6.5 out of 8 the only player who have theoretical chance to get 6.5 out of 8 are the female world champion in correspondence chess Luba kristol(3.5 out of 5) and GM abir har aven (2.5 out of 4) I won both of these players with the black pieces. other players with good results are pinhas azar(3.5 out of 6) yoav dothan(finished with 4.5 out of 8) dov rozenberg(3 out of 6) moshe glazman(3.5 out of 7) micheal gavish has 1 out of 6 and the only player who does not use programs to help him(david vaichel) has o out of 6. Uri
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