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Submitted by artfizz on Sat, 02/14/2009 at 5:09am.

Resource

What is it?

Is it permitted DURING Turn-Based (and Vote Chess) play?

Is it permitted DURING LiveChess play?

Asking another person for advice

Includes discussing a game-in-progress in the chess.com Forums

NO* (except during VoteChess - when discussion WITHIN the team is expected)

NO

Books

This is a static resource and involves no calculation of best move.

YES

NO

Chess Engine (chess computer) the move calculator inside such programs as Fritz, ChessMaster

Software (or free-standing gadget) that calculates the best move from a given position

NO (except by agreement of both players, where specifically arranged and must be UNRATED games e.g. in a tournament created for that purpose)

NO

Conditional Moves (Pre-Moves)

Setting your response in advance to one or more of your opponent’s moves

YES

YES

Internet articles; Google searches

This is a static resource and involves no calculation of best move.

YES

NO

Openings Database e.g. Game Explorer

A database (or collection) of previous games, that is searchable. It covers Opening Lines only i.e. the initial few moves.

YES

NO

Separate board for analysis e.g. chess.com’s Analysis Board

 

YES

NO

TableBases (Endings Database)

The results from an analysis of end games (stored in a database) in which the sequence of moves to achieve the best outcome has been calculated

NO

NO

http://support.chess.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=17&nav=0,6

ARTREF: WHAT IS ALLOWED

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/tournaments/games-explorer

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/what-are-chess-engines

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Comments:

by JollyPlayer - 5 months ago
Southern Indiana United States
Member Since: Jul 2009
Member Points: 367

And if you played in a live tournament, you would be KILLED.  Eventually you would be known as a cheater (980 Chess might bring that out) and no one would play you.  

I get suspicious when someone wants a timeout, vacation or has been playing for an hour and you are down to the end game and they logoff for the day.

I joined the USCF so I could play tournaments and other players (there are clubs around here).  If all my practice on Chess.com I depended on a computer, I would get killed in a real tourney.  

But as in everything in life, some people would rather have a 2000 rating than learn how to play chess.  Go figure.Yell

by Christofoulos - 10 months ago
Toronto Canada
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 25

I had no idea that all of those resources could potentially be used by 'cheater'

Wouldnt it ruin the whole point of playing chess in the first place? I dont see how people can get enjoyment from beating people using an engine... what a waste of time just so you can have a high rating. Pretty pathetic actually.

 
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