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Subject: Re: what program is best to play correspondece chess against humans?

Author: Robin Smith

Date: 21:57:30 03/10/03

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On March 10, 2003 at 14:33:08, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:

>But when assisted by a computer and having it analyse for hours these tactical
>complications are useless: the computer will tell you if they are good or bad.
>At least in 98% of all cases. So there's no need to "develop ideas" anymore:
>your own program or the program of your opponent will calculate the answer *and*
>thus the rebuttal. No one will play such an idea anymore.

Hi Jeroen,

I disagree.  There are many highly tactical positions where the strongest
programs, running on a very fast computer, for days, still cannot go deeply
enough to avoid mistakes.  But one has to know how to find the right "kind" of
tactics.

Robin



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