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Subject: Re: Chess Engines in Correspondence Chess

Author: maria clara benedicto

Date: 16:33:27 12/06/02

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wow!

how naive of me. no wonder?! i thought or assumed my opponents didn't use chess
engines.

no wonder....   out of my first 12 email chess games, i have resigned 7.

thanks Anatoli Sirota,

regards

maria




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. 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.
>Correspondence chess steped in the new era when a player MUST use an engine,
>otherwise he doesn'e have any chances in these new conditions. I played cor.
>chess for more then 15 years and now I finish my last tournament and quit. Cor.
>chess is dead as a branch of chess. I read your messages and some other players
>at J. Kundsen forum. Also I followed your match with Fritz and Nimzo. It is
>impossible to argue with the visitors of that forum. ALL of THEM use fritz but
>just tell them that someone else use it too!! They will eat you alive.
>
>Regards,
>Anatoli Sirota



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