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Subject: Re: Chess Engines in Correspondence Chess

Author: martin fierz

Date: 14:36:24 12/06/02

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On December 06, 2002 at 13:07:32, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On December 06, 2002 at 12:56:18, Stephen Ham wrote:
>
>>This was interesting, although the question is vague. For example, I don't use
>>any chess engines to analyse during my games; I find my own moves. However, I
>>use Nimzo 7.32 to blunder check to ensure I'm not hanging material
>>(unknowingly!) before posting the move.
>
>So if you find out that you did, you alter your move. This is effectively
>using Nimzo for analysis during the game. IMHO saying you find your own
>moves is hypocrisy.

hmm, i guess you have never played correspondence chess yourself? or know people
who do? i played a bit for a while, and i know a lot of people who play CC. i
can assure you that LOTS of CC players only turn on their engine and enter the
opponents move when they get it, and really don't find their own moves. instead,
they go with the recommendation of the engine, or, if several moves are close in
value, they may choose the second or third-best. these are the guys who don't
find their moves themselves.
stephen explained what he does - he chooses a move, without a chess engine, and
only then checks it. i wish i had had the discipline to play CC like that and i
am sure most CC players don't. he most definitely "finds his moves himself", and
even if he checks and changes them on occasion, his statement is quite ok.

cheers
  martin



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