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Subject: Re: Correspondence Chess

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 03:46:54 01/30/03

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On January 30, 2003 at 06:30:05, maria clara benedicto wrote:

>On January 30, 2003 at 04:35:57, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On January 30, 2003 at 03:45:54, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>>
>>>On January 30, 2003 at 02:48:38, Uri Blass wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 30, 2003 at 02:37:47, Dana Turnmire wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 29, 2003 at 19:39:38, Wayne Lowrance wrote:
>>>>>>
>>Genius is weak only relative to the top commercial programs so if you play
>>against another thing or if the opponent does not give machines hours to
>>calculate you have good chances to win.
>>
>>My experience is that most of the correspondence players do not use programs for
>>hours.
>>
>>Today I have 6 games as 6th board in the olimpiad.
>>
>>all of my games are in the opening stage but I already decided to start to give
>>programs to analyze positions for hours in 2 of the games that my opponents
>>sacrificed a pawn and I also started to collect information about games(I did
>>not buy a special database but thanks to chessbase it is possible to search for
>>games with a specific position and I can get games including a lot of
>>correspondence games).
>>
>>I did not do it in the first moves but now I start to do it inspite of the fact
>>that the position is still theory with a lot of games.
>>
>>Uri
>
>no wonder i lost some email chessgames. they must have been using chess
>programs!  i thought we couldnt use chess engines to play for us.

The rules allow players to use chess engines to play for them.
There are tournament when the rules do not allow it but I do not play in them.

Uri



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