Author: blass uri
Date: 05:59:16 07/01/99
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On July 01, 1999 at 08:48:27, Christopher R. Dorr wrote: >Are you certain that the use of computers is legal in this Championship? I >strongly doubt that it is. I haven't played correspondence chess in several >years, but at the time I specifically remember that computers were *not* >allowed. I hadn't heard that they changed the rules. I know that *a few* >correspondence tournaments allow the use of computers, but I'm very surprised if >the WC did. I am sure about it. The winner told the readers of chess in the Israel that after discussion about it the decision in world championships is to allow using computers. There are 2 reasons for it: 1)It is impossible to force people to obey rules of not using computers. 2)using computers increase the level of play. I know that the rules of Israel correspondence championship also allow using computers. Uri
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