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

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:18:08 02/26/02

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On February 26, 2002 at 17:06:29, martin fierz wrote:

>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?

From this old post:
http://www.it.ro/ccc_search/ccc.php?art_id=49653

We have this:
"In th championship of Israel there is no rule against computers or against
getting advice from humans."




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