Author: martin fierz
Date: 14:06:29 02/26/02
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On February 26, 2002 at 13:06:16, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > http://ccn.correspondencechess.com/pdf/ccnews61.pdf [pages 9-12] correspondence chess... it's completely different than over-the-board chess. many strong correspondence players know very little about chess, and have huge ratings thanks to computers. you can see this when you see them play normal tournaments, when you talk to them about chess, and when you read comments to games they played. ratings are inflated in CC, i once played in the swiss championship and got a 2378 rating without really trying. there are notable exceptions, like ulf andersson, a strong over-the-board GM who plays CC now, but generally speaking, a CC GM is no comparison to an over-the-board GM chesswise. the game presented in this newsletter is a clean wipeout by uri & his computers, white played a really terrible game, and black punished him in grand style. congrats to this game & the title! BTW, uri, were you playing officially as "uri, the computer operator", or did your opponents not know? aloha martin
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