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Subject: Re: surprising result in correspondence games

Author: martin fierz

Date: 13:50:25 09/14/04

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On September 14, 2004 at 16:45:02, Albert Silver wrote:

>On September 14, 2004 at 14:58:42, Evgeny Shu wrote:
>
>>I wonder where is the interest if computer analysing the game and not the human
>>? :)
>
>Without wishing to criticize, I ask myself the exact same thing. I'm not going
>to enter the whole "is it cheating?" debate, since that's not even the issue.
>Still, what fun can it be to sit there feeding a computer's moves, no matter how
>well you administered the time and engines used? I guess the bottom line is what
>is more important to you: the results or the actual playing?
>
>                                          Albert

i know a swiss correspondence player who has some title (i forget what, corr-IM
i think) who pays an over-the-board IM to help him decide on moves. bottom line:
there are always people interested in results, and the recognition they can get
from these results, because only few people realize that they cheated.

cheers
  martin



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