Author: Jeff White
Date: 19:28:14 11/18/04
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>I remember reading somewhere that top level correspondance players are very good >tactically and in the endgame but top over the board players are better >strategically. This makes sense. With all that time you can work out lots of >tactical lines or research the ending but no amount of time will make you >understand chess better. >Ulf Anderson was once in the top 5 over the board. When he retired from >competitin he took up correspondance chess. His first correspondance rating was >the highest ever! >Hans Berliner was correspondance champion and active over the board player but >was never even near the top in OTB. >I think they take 2 different kinds of players. I never got into correspondance >chess. I figured that if I wanted to play against computers and could do that >anyway. >Regards >Tony Which is the exact reason I don't play correspondance chess. I can play my computer anytime I want. I don't want to play someone else's. Regards, Jeff
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