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Subject: Re: Correspondence Chess

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 07:48:39 01/30/03

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On January 30, 2003 at 10:20:25, Wayne Lowrance wrote:

>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

I guess that Fritz8 is the best engine so I will probably keep Fritz8.

Uri



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