Author: Uri Blass
Date: 14:50:49 12/06/02
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On December 06, 2002 at 16:24:53, Anatoli Sirota wrote: >On December 06, 2002 at 12:56:18, Stephen Ham wrote: > >>. 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. After the game, I use Nimzo 7.32 or >>sometimes Fritz to help me wade through complex tactical positions (yes, even I >>reach a few of those). So I could have voted None, since I find my own moves >>during the game. Instead, I voted for Nimzo, since I do use it after my games. >>So, in spite of the vagueness of the question, I think the poll is significant >>in that nobody voted for None. Still, I'd like to see a new poll where the >>question is specific to chess engine use for analytical support DURING the game. > > >Stephen, if you use an engine JUST 'to blunder check', it means you use it to >help yourself playing by correspondence. And according to ICCF rules, it is >illegal to use any engine during the game, even if you have a good reason. It seems that you do not know the ICCF rules. According to these rules it is legal not only to use engines for help but also to use engines to play all your moves. But >don't worry, these days everyone from a begginer till the Cor. World Champion >uses Fritz or any other program to make his life easier. Just open your fritz >and walk together with it along the games of Tony Oim or Timmerman ! But none of >the cor. players want to confess it, but no one needs their confession. I think that a lot of corr players admit that they use computers. Uri
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