Author: Albert Silver
Date: 13:18:49 02/28/04
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On February 28, 2004 at 07:45:14, Uri Blass wrote:
>On February 28, 2004 at 06:28:58, Bryan Hofmann wrote:
>
>>On February 27, 2004 at 18:44:23, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>On February 27, 2004 at 18:17:18, Bryan Hofmann wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 27, 2004 at 18:11:39, Derek Paquette wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Ok, I am a littel confused?
>>>>>
>>>>>These engines are code named so he doesn't know which engine he is playing
>>>>>exactly? or?
>>>>>
>>>>>what exactly is going on,
>>>>
>>>>Same here, but I do know this Nickel is not a GM level player OTB
>>>>http://www.fide.com/ratings/card.phtml?event=4623703
>>>
>>>Totally unimportant.
>>
>>Your opion.
>>
>>>
>>>The games are to check if strong correspondence players with the aid of
>>>computers can beat computers.
>>
>>If this is a Cyborg match then the human part of the equation makes a big
>>difference as to his rating in OTB. The human is the one making the choice for
>>the move.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Note that Arno nickel does not use many computers to analyze so the opponents
>>>computer opponent have time advanatage and to make the task harder arno nickel
>>>also does not know the names of the chess programs that he is playing so he
>>>cannot prepare against specific program unless he guess correctly the opponent.
>>
>>Makes no difference if it is 1 or 50 programs used to analyze the next move. The
>>bottom line is the human is making the choice thus his OTB skills are a
>>determining factor of the outcome.
>
>I think that some otb skills are irrelevant.
>
>Memory is important in otb games because it is illegal to make notes or to
>analyze in another board.
>
>It is not the case in correspondence games.
>
>Uri
I agree to a degree. I will note that I have a friend who is a postal Senior
Master who is not stronger than 2100 OTB and uses no engines to analyze his
games. I have another friend who was about 2200 Fide and who also reached a
2500+ ICCF rating without engine use. These are at least two cases I can vouch
for.
Albert
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