Author: Vasik Rajlich
Date: 03:17:55 09/15/04
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On September 14, 2004 at 17:37:26, Peter Berger wrote: >On September 14, 2004 at 16:50:25, martin fierz wrote: > >>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 > >I talked to an OTB GM some time ago, close to 2600, who was competing in a CC >championship in an anonymous way ( also using computers of course) as "helper" >for a player who had hired him, because he had tried to reach some result for >several years, but had never managed to do it on his own. > >The master had a unique approach to computerchess, that was of course >interesting to get to know, but I kept wondering about the guy who had hired >him, the wannabe master. I can't imagine correspondence chess to still work at >the higher levels once computers have improved to a level above any human >skills. People will just hire their computers. > >Peter I know several CC players who are extremely enthusiastic about their craft. Keep in mind that computers still have some drastic weaknesses, in spite of their overall strength. Apparently in CC the "human assistance" is still able to tip the balance. Vas
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