Author: Uri Blass
Date: 15:56:51 12/06/02
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On December 06, 2002 at 18:00:16, Stephen Ham wrote: >On December 06, 2002 at 17:16:45, Matthew Barnett wrote: > >>I remember a couple of years ago (or more) a guy won a CC/email championship >>with the help of computers - he was very open about this with his opponent(s) >>who did not use a computer. His technique was to favour different engines for >>different kinds of positions and stages in the game. I remember he found >>ChessMaster particularly valuable in the endgame. Does anyone else recall this? >> >>I use the computer to help me analyse my correspondence games after I've >>finished. I often find chess engines lacking in some instances in their >>positional awareness. They also tend to favour aggressive lines of exchanges >>which usually look drawish/weakening in the long run rather than go for a >>waiting/holding move which can be more suitable to corr. chess time >>controls/style. >> >>One reason I'm interested in the new Chess Assistant is because it might >>actually enable more useful/flexible analytical possibilites/results from >>engines. I've always thought that the ChessBase GUIs seem a bit wooden in this >>regard. >> >>Bests >> >>Matthew > >Dear Matthew, > >I think you may be writing about our very own Uri Blass. As I recall, Uri won >the Israeli Correspondence Ch. a few years ago. Being a man of honor, he was >very open about what he did, not claiming any glory for himself. > >I do recall Uri liking Chessmaster and Junior 5 and then later favoring Deep >Fritz, although I don't recall if he found any of them valuable in the endgame. >Perhaps your memory is better than mine. :-) > >Best wishes to you in Correspondence Chess! > >Stephen I think that he does not talk about me. I won the Israeli correspondence championship but I finished my games less than 2 years ago. I believe that my opponents in the final except one player used a computer to help them. part of the opponents in the previous stage also used a computer. I found chessmaster good at finding mates. a mate is at the end of the game but I do not think that endgame is the right definition of position when there is a forced mate. Uri
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