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Subject: Re: Using chess engines in correspondence chess

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 08:22:39 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 10:50:50, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>On August 30, 2005 at 10:20:56, Shaley wrote:
>
>>There is an interesting article on whether and how to use chess engines in
>>correspondence games placed in ICCF web zine at
>>http://amici.iccf.com/issues/issue_05/issue_05_Chess_engines.html
>
>      What the author wrote in the above mentioned article
>      is more or less nonsense. He must be a journalist
>      with little understanding of how chess programs work.
>      Kurt

I can add that his conclusions are also not correct because it is clear that
when both sides use computers the weaker player has better chances relative to
the case that both do not use computers.

The stronger player always has an advantage but the advantage is smaller.

The example in the endgame with sacrificing the bishop is example that I expect
almost no player to do a mistake and I expect even intelligent beginner over the
board to suspect that the opponent is not stupid to give him the bishop
and to analyze some moves forward with the computer.

I think that the positive thing from this article can be some interesting test
positions for computers.

Uri



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