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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