Author: Laurence Chen
Date: 08:29:58 12/05/98
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On December 05, 1998 at 10:57:33, Matthew Herman wrote: >On December 05, 1998 at 10:41:06, Ali Tofigh wrote: > >>Hi! >> >>I'm just wandering what the accepted norm for correspondence chess is. Is it >>ethically wrong to use chess software for analysis of positions? Or can this be >>seen just like other resources (for example opening books, etc...) >> >>Me, I think it's not wrong if it's not wrong to ask your friends for help. And I >>know several people who do just that... Any opinions? > >Ali, from what I have read etc.. the use of computer programs for correspondence >chess is legal for. : searching to see if the position has been played before in >your database. in cb7 there is a opening report feature. using the ken thompson >tablebases. (as it is just like looking in Basic Chess endings by fine etc..) >Looking at analysis previously published (as you would look in ECO). > >I don't think it is legal to ask a "friend" for advice though. Or a computer >program. One common use is people making their move and then "tactic checking >it" to see if it allowed a huge shot. That is ILLEGAL. > >Those are just a few ... but I dont think it is "ethically" correct to have a >computer help you with deciding on your move in that way (i.e. using the >analysis engine). I don't think it is unethical to use the computer in correspondence chess. Especially in our times, computers are very cheap, and there are a lot of chess programs available. And because correspondence chess is a slow game which analysis produces better games than OTB, using a computer engine only helps to avoid tactical mistakes, however, computers are still limited in their understanding to chess strategy, and using the computers would only help to produce games which are high in strategic thinking, that is, the human player would have to come up with some strategic ideas which the computer is not able to do. Erudito
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