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Subject: Re: Correspondence Chess

Author: Wayne Lowrance

Date: 07:20:25 01/30/03

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On January 30, 2003 at 06:46:54, Uri Blass wrote:

>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

Thanks Dana, et:all. ok Dana thanks for info on your program. Uri what is your
most trusted ? I know most likely you use all of your engines but what one would
you keep if you had to give the rest away, ?

Thanks
Wayne



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