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Subject: Re: If you use ¨retract¨ technique, you are not playing real chess.

Author: Tanya Deborah

Date: 09:21:46 04/02/02

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On April 02, 2002 at 08:32:19, maria clara benedicto wrote:

>dear friends,
>
>i use "retract" technique when i play vs. high rate programs.
>only way to beat them.
>
>maria
>
>p.s. my rating 1200 only
>
>


I do not like to retract moves. I prefer to lose against a program. I definitely
think that if you retract moves, you are not playing real chess.

Pd: What happened to Fischer? I do not understand him.

Tanya.





>On April 01, 2002 at 21:07:12, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>
>>All that an expert rated player have to do is retract several times against the
>>very best chess programs of today and eventually he will beat the program. Tere
>>have to be a limit as the number of moves during a game that a player could
>>rectract. Another scenario would be a player rated 100 rating points less than
>>his opponent if he is allowed to retract one blunder he could easy match his
>>opponent, and for every 100 points difference the weaker player should be
>>allowed to retract one move. For example if a player who is rated 2100 have to
>>face an opponent who is rated 2300 then he should be allowed to retract two
>>blunders during his games. This would make it fare and a larger number of
>>players could be paired in any given tournament. This is the only way that this
>>new Fischer move could make sense.
>>
>>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=240



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