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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