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Should opening books be allowed?
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Jan 6, 2010
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#83
The way I see it is if you want to play chess with over the board rules then go play over the board tournaments and club chess.
If you play correspondence chess then you follow them rules ...
You can't come into a chess site saying that "I believe that using a database in the opening of a normal game is cheating"
Just my thoughts on this
Jan 6, 2010
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#84
Schachgeek wrote:
Eventually there will be no uncharted waters. Everything will be in a database.
Probably at Gonnosuke's house.
LOL 
Correspondence players add to opening theory because both players are able to slowly analyze positions that are too complex to analyze easily OTB. Theory must progress faster when novelties are answered after research and analysis rather than when sprung in an OTB game.
For those of us who are not going to add to opening theory with our moves, we can either flail around looking for the right answer and then look up the line after the game, or look the line up during the game. I feel that the latter approach lets me learn a lot more.
To continue the academic analogy, I don't think that a CC game is like an open book test. It's more like a research project, the goal of which, of course, is not just to put a paper/presentation/whatever together, but to learn something along the way. Then again, in neither an exam or research project is there an opponent on the other side trying to mess me up.
Duffer1965 wrote:
Then again, in neither an exam or research project is there an opponent on the other side trying to mess me up.
You and I obviously didn't have the same college professors.
--Fromper
Jan 6, 2010
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#87
HotFlow wrote: I just think it is possible to cater for all tastes, a simple tick box "with" or "without" opening resources would please everyone I believe.
Just to expand on what Ziryab replied:
Allowing members to pick and choose which games they play in OTB/unassisted/real-time mode and which they play in CC/research/offline mode raises issues:
1. assuming both types of games are RATED, the ratings pool will need to be partitioned; otherwise it will contain incompatible values.
2. if anyone is playing some CC/research/offline games AT THE SAME TIME as playing OTB/unassisted/real-time games, there will still be potential leakage of information from the former to the latter.
Good luck, chess_kababs
Jan 6, 2010
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#89
chess_kebabs wrote: ... Time to focus on what is really important in my life... my family ...
Live long and prosper, chess_kebabs
Gambitking wrote:
Wow, you people take your chess really seriously... it kind of cracks me up to read stuff like "I've had 6 games going consecutively in the French Defence for 10 years... at least"! ROFL... seriously, I "don't wanna' waste my life..." especially seeing that I come back to this thread and THREE new pages are added in one day... LOL!
I find you repulsive.
chess_kebabs wrote:
I am closing my account in 1-4 hours... so all these comments will disappear... happy chessing everyone! Time to focus on what is really important in my life... my family and my business... someone will post a goodbye letter to all my friends here in community forums after I close it...
Peace, Babs
Good night sweet princess. You were truly the best of us all.
Jan 6, 2010
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#92
chess_kebabs wrote:
I am closing my account in 1-4 hours... so all these comments will disappear... happy chessing everyone! Time to focus on what is really important in my life... my family and my business... someone will post a goodbye letter to all my friends here in community forums after I close it...
Peace, Babs
Quick we need to create a group to stop babs from leaving ... wait a minute we already have one ..... LOL
Sorry Babs yeah I do hope you and your family are very happy god bless you!!
If being completely illogical was made a crime, chess_kebabs would become an outlaw - Mikhail Tal
Gambitking wrote:
So that means that because she says "love you too kupov"... that's being illogical?
LOL you're too funny Babs!
No.
This is not a thread about you chess_kebabs. Take this to your fan club.
Jan 6, 2010
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#95
Well no because this thread will then either get deleted as so many threads do or it will get locked
I did not know how many members cheat on this site but reading these notes there are loads of you that DO !
Just play chess and have fun, read and learn some other time and not at your opponants expence!
Wow! billgillO. Taking up the reigns, good job!
Jan 6, 2010
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#98
If I am a cheat because I use a database during the opening then so is the vast majority of the site ...
OOOPS just remembered something ...
You MAY use books, magazines, or other articles. You may also use Game databases which do not include computer analysis (including Chess.com's Game Explorer) for the Online (correspondence) Chess only.
Jan 6, 2010
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#99
blackfirestorm666 wrote:
If I am a cheat because I use a database during the opening then so is the vast majority of the site ...
OOOPS just remembered something ...
You MAY use books, magazines, or other articles. You may also use Game databases which do not include computer analysis (including Chess.com's Game Explorer) for the Online (correspondence) Chess only.
JUST in case you think I am lying ...
http://support.chess.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=17
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You are being watched.
(Nearly) everybody unplug your webcams!
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