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Subject: Re: Computers Beat CC-GM in Israeli Correspondence Chess Championship Finals

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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