Author: Alex Shalamanov
Date: 04:15:45 01/12/06
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On January 12, 2006 at 06:10:20, Uri Blass wrote: >This is not correct unless you talk about games when using computers is allowed. > >You can play correspondence game in the following site and beat most players >with no comuter help. > >http://gameknot.com/ Uri, the games played over there at www.gameknot.com are not correspondence chess to me. They are rather 'offline chess' like at www.igame.ru or other offline chess sites. When I said ' correspondence chess', I actually meant ICCF snail mail or email chess. In ICCF or RCCA (Russian Correspondence Chess Association) players who don't use computer help or chess programme assistance are really few, if any. Personally, I use computer assistance only for ICCF or RCCA games and play on my own at www.gameknot.com. I find the play level at gameknot rather poor, may be because of trying to avoid cheating. As to engines I use for analysis in CC games at ICCF, I personally find Rybka and Shredder more convenient because I undertand their moves and plans better than those of the CB-based products. BTW, I used to be a sturdy fan of Hiarcs and I was looking forward to the new H10 version very much. Now I feel very dissappointed. I think H10 is even worse than H9 for analysis. It's lost a lot of its positional understanding, to my mind. Perhaps, Mark Uniacke made up his mind to make it stronger at tactical or attacking chess but its positional euristics has somewhat degraded, as it seems. It's my personal view, though. Best wishes, Alexander P.S.: I've shown my friend, OTB NM, how Rybka plays and he was amazed at how strong human chess can programmes play nowadays.
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