Rules of Correspondence Chess

You can reference articles and other games? Time to stomp some people in CC

idk, never bothered looking

Is Stockfish giving you these moves dynamically? By this, I mean you get to the move, and it's engine tells you the move? If so, this is not legal.

However, if Stockfish is using suggested moves based on a collection of games, then this would be legal.

No wonder CC isnt taken seriously...

Actually, you are mistaken. It is not taken seriously by those who do not know otherwise.

The fact is, many many masters played it and say it is a solid way to build your chess skills.

In general terms, you are allowed to use STATIC resources during a correspondance game... resources that do not change during the game. You cannot use any DYNAMMIC resource... one that changes its state after the first move has been made.

So if you use your chess engine for any purpose AFTER the game has started, it's illegal.

If you just consult a pre-prepared table of opening lines, that's OK, because the table does not change in any way after the game starts.

I used to belong to the cheating forum and I remember a similar question coming up about engine preparation.  The majority opinion was that since lots of books now contain engine prep and that's OK to use, that if you printed out your engine prep it was legal.  If you left it on the computer, even though you weren't firing up the engine, it was illegal.  We're splitting hairs here, but apparently that's what has to be done.  So I think a hand written table is just fine.  I'm wrong a lot though .

I would avoid it - even mentioning it probably got you in the mods' crosshairs for cheaters. I know you would never cheat, but the staff don't know that. As for the printed sheet, I think you are allowed to use, as bluemu said, static sources such as books.

I am new to correspondence chess.  Where can I find the rules?

Wheres a mod? This troll needs to get reported. Not only this, he also asked if we can use computers during live games. He is just trying to rack up comments.

EDIT: he is replaced by te [a troll]