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Subject: Re: Freestyle Chess?

Author: Tony Thomas Karippa

Date: 23:29:06 02/03/06

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On February 03, 2006 at 19:33:56, Uri Blass wrote:

>On February 03, 2006 at 11:23:41, James Constance wrote:
>
>>Actually this describes correspondence chess, where use of computers is not
>>prohibited, such as with ICCF and IECG (I think).  There is the potential for
>>the games to have a very high standard, although I believe sometimes people rely
>>too heavily on their computer understanding the position, and the games have
>>little creativity. However at higher levels (say around ELO 2300+) I don't think
>>it's possible to take a computer evaluation for granted.
>
>I think that the main mistakes that people do in correspondence games is that
>they rely too heavily on their human understanding and not relying too heavily
>on their computer understanding.
>
>computer with no help can probably get easily more than 2400.
>
>at higher levels(2700+) is it not possible to take a computer evaluation for
>granted but 2300 is IMO not a high level.
>
>My games has little creativity(Usually I only choose which program to believe)
>and it did not prevent me to get an ICCF rating of almost 2600.
What did you gain out of it Uri??



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