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Subject: Re: Ches "Pros" Arrogance According to Oscar Wilde

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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