Author: Uri Blass
Date: 10:09:06 06/11/04
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On June 11, 2004 at 12:44:49, Mihaly Szalai wrote: >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 I do not choose automatically what the program suggest but it does not change the fact that better hardware help. In my case I already got SIM norm in the preliminary olympiad(it was impossible to get the GM norm). Uri
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