Author: allan johnson
Date: 14:14:34 03/26/99
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On March 24, 1999 at 10:03:09, Gaetan GARCIA wrote: > Hi all ! > > I recently registered to the IECG to play by e-mail and >I have not yet started. I decided to register for a quad >tournament only because in quad tournaments, the use of chess- >playing programs for choosing moves is not allowed. > Indeed, my opinion is that for weak players (I must be >somewhere around 1300 elo, not more anyway), computers may >help improve but if I use a computer to analyze, my best >solution (as far as the result is concerned) will be to >adopt the move proposed by the program. In these conditions, >I could hardly say that _I_ have been playing the game. > Any thoughts about this ? > > Gaetan Hi Gaetan You have raised what I think is a very difficult question.Only you can really answer it though. I think that the temptation for many players is to resort to computers to analyse games and I see nothing wrong with that especially if you are doing so simply to put the moves to memory for future reference. Where it becomes a problem is when or if you are playing a game, arrive at a position you are unfamiliar with, resort to the computer and then use the move as your own.That is cheating your opponent and yourself.If you decide on a move in e-mail chess analyse it on the computer find that it gets a negative score then you have to decide whether you are going to look for a better move or submit the one you arrived at through analysis. In my opinion this is the problem with all forms of correspondence chess i.e.you don't know whether you are playing a person or a computer.You are much better off playing across the table and even then some people have been known to cheat.Any way I hope you arrive at a decision that is fair to yourself and your opponent. Regards Allan Regards Allan
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