Author: Mihaly Szalai
Date: 09:44:49 06/11/04
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On June 11, 2004 at 12:00:09, Uri Blass wrote: >On June 11, 2004 at 11:35:23, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>It is curious; each time a company advertise a new program that brings this or >>that frills, boards, new and pleasant features for the people and so give to us >>a decent reason to purchase them, two or three pros jumps and using his worst >>sarcasm and louder arrogance say "nobody" want those things and besides they >>insist -the old, very old argument- the CPU will lose such and such degree of >>power to process the game. >>So let me ask: >>How many people here, pros included, are higher than 2000 Elo player? Or at most >>2300? > >Not relevant. > >People usually do not buy chess programs to play against them. >People who are interested in playing against programs can dowload free programs >that are weaker. > >>So, what is the importance that a chess engine, with the frills, will play at >>"only 2495" instead o 2550 without the frills? > >Important for part of the buyers. > >Chess programs are used for correspondence games when the target is to win so >2550 instead of 2495 can give another half point and can be the difference >between getting the IM norm and not getting the IM norm in correspondence games. > >Uri Uri, you completely rely on computer analysis in your correspondence games? No human ideas at all? I can't believe it. Mihaly former correspondence chess player
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