Author: Andrew Walker
Date: 17:35:37 01/12/06
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On January 12, 2006 at 07:15:45, Alex Shalamanov wrote: >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. Alexander, I really doubt Mark has been taking out positional knowledge in Hiarcs 10. Why not email him and found out for certain? Andrew
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