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

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 10:08:01 03/11/03

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On March 11, 2003 at 05:56:08, Peter Berger wrote:

>On March 10, 2003 at 13:44:12, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>On March 10, 2003 at 12:17:36, Peter Berger wrote:
>>
>>I did not look at the games but using a computer does not mean to play
>>computer moves.
>>
>>Computers can be used for analysis of positions that is not on the board
>>and I think that giving computer hours to analyze when you sleep may give more
>>information so it is better than nothing.
>>
>>I tend to believe that the top players do everything to help them and it
>>includes using computers.
>>
>
>I agree - it seems corresponcence chess is a dying sport. In maybe 10 years due
>to advances in hardware (and software, too) chessprograms will be virtually
>unbeatable. At this time top level correspondence chess will most likely be a
>battle of clever computer operators.
>
>It's more interesting how far away from this point we currently are.  I read
>Junior Tay's and your interesting report about your play in the Israeli
>championship. I'd say chessprograms played and you helped them a little . There
>are probably many correspondence players who play like this, but they don't
>tell. Maybe you had a slight advantage as you understand chessprograms very well
>but on the other hand other players maybe use more than one PC and more CPU time
>which probably nearly equalizes this advantage.
>
>But your results are few and it's hard to tell how close to a corresponcence GM
>you could perform. Other correspondence players who use computers in a similar
>way usually don't post their experiences. How are your games in the Olympiad so
>far?

I am still in the opening phase in all the games.
only 2 games are out of my database.

I use time in the opening because I am afraid that games may be decided in the
opening(maybe it already happened in one of my games and I still do not know
it).

I also has less time per game relative to the israeli championship because of
the following reasons:

1)I have more opponents(10 when in the israeli competitions I had never more
than 8 opponents at the same time).
2)I use less computer time because I also use computer time for movei.

I do not expect high result like the israeli championship and I will be happy
with 7/10.

Uri



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