Using the engine in correpondence chess??

Hi all,

since a couple of years I am playing correspondence chess (3 days for a move) on this channel. I'm also following several you tube channels, one of which is "chess to progress". On this channel the host is posting his analysis of viewer's games. In a recent one (viewer's game #44: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqDRWf1XGU&t=35s) it is more or less acknowledged that, in correspondence chess, using an engine (computer assistance) is allowed before doing a move, for instance to "prevent blunders" etc (see the, remarkably short, discussion on this video). Is this true? Because, if yes, I immediately will quit this form of playing chess. I can better play against the computer and put it on a level which suits me.

All the best,

Tom

I don't even use a computer to input my moves. I just chisel 0's and 1's into a stone tablet and ship them straight to chess.com headquarters!

You can't use an engine in Daily games here at chess.com.  Read here:  https://support.chess.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1444879-fair-play-on-chess-com-what-you-need-to-know

 From that page:

What are the rules?

• No chess programs or engines (e.g. Chessmaster, Fritz, Komodo, Houdini, Stockfish, Chessbase with any active UCI engine, etc.) can be used to analyze positions in ongoing games at any time.  
• In Daily Chess (turn-based games with several days per move), you may consult books or databases (including the Chess.com Explorer) for opening moves. "Tablebases" - which are specialized databases of particular endgame positions - may NOT be used at any time. Further, you may not consult an engine to provide an opinion on your opening database, self-preparation or analysis that would relate to a particular game-in-progress on Chess.com.
• In Live Chess, no outside assistance OF ANY KIND is permitted.
• Fixing game results by playing with multiple accounts or losing intentionally is also against the rules.

Never should a computer/ third party source should influence your moves 

I think its ok to use an engine on correspondence chess.  the opponent has acres of time to think of their next move, so what is the difference? 

Morals are the difference.

Well it's against the rules. Do you want a game of correspondence chess or do you want a game of stockfish vs stockfish

It's cheating.