Author: blass uri
Date: 16:52:25 02/20/00
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On February 20, 2000 at 18:22:27, chris sergel wrote: >I can see I have a different perspective from most of the people here > on this site. >I play correspondence chess - internationally - in an organization wherein >it is legal to use chess compuers to help with analysis. >I think many of my opponents have used programs to generate their moves, >and I believe this is a mistake. (I mean, without human input) I also play correspondence chess where it is legal to use a computer in the championship of Israel(3/4 final) and if I need 5 out of 7 games to be in the final. For some reason at least 3 of my opponents do not use a computer and I win against them. I am sure that it is a mistake to use programs without human input to generate moves. I know that many people here agree about it. I give my computer hours to analyze position but after it I check if the move was not a mistake because I know that programs may do mistakes. I follow Junior5.9(I got it from amir ban some monthes ago and did not buy the new version) in 2 games when the computer did not blunder I got a winning position in one of them and a clearly better position in the second game. I followed Junior5.9 in another game for many moves (my opponent is 2200 player in regular chess who does not use a computer) and got a rook endgame with one pawn advantage but decided to stop follow the computer when it blundered in a rook endgame and sugggested me to do a move that gives my opponent an easy draw. It is possible that the position was drawn(I am not sure about it) but I decided to play another move that gives me at least better practical chances and now I am winning the game. >I'm afraid I don't think chess programs are very strong in quiet positional >situations. However in sharper positions, they are very strong. They are sometimes strong and sometimes weak at quiet positions. It is dependent on the position. <snipped> >I've tried several programs in these sharp positions, but feel that >Hiarcs 6.0 and the new program - Rebel Tiger - generate the most interesting >ideas. >The different perspective is that I am looking for interesting ideas (even >bad ideas are OK - I can sort that out) rather than strongest programs. >I hope I'm not insulting anybody, but I think that Fritz really doesn't >have a clue as to what positional chess is about. I think that every program has positions that it does not understand and it is possible that fritz does not understand your games. Uri
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