Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-30 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Meaning the player not the computer then. Meaning an AI company can't enter an army of bots to automate everything through and through. -- What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patt

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-30 Thread cbannister
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 01:07:09PM -0400, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > Thank you for these interesting interviews, Nils! > > I've asked my Tournament Director for one qualifier of the current World > Championship cycle and he confirmed my position: the ICCF only requires > that the player is the one

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-30 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thank you for these interesting interviews, Nils! I've asked my Tournament Director for one qualifier of the current World Championship cycle and he confirmed my position: the ICCF only requires that the player is the one who plays the moves. As long as it the player is the captain of his own shi

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-25 Thread Nils R Grotnes
It is well known and accepted in the CC community that engines are used: http://amici.iccf.com/issues/issue_08/issue_08_ivar_bern_part_2.html https://www.iccf.com/Message.aspx?message=541 http://en.chessbase.com/post/better-than-an-engine-leonardo-ljubicic-2-2 HTH On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:56 P

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-25 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> I think the poster is asking where this is documented, if I am understanding it correctly. Rules work by restriction - unless there's a restriction, it's allowed. There is no restriction under the currect ICCF rules. Therefore, it's allowed. The same applies to chess documentation. > I was ref

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-25 Thread cbannister
On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:58:51PM -0400, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > Strange - which document is it in? I couldn't find it. > > Exactly. The only restriction I think the poster is asking where this is documented, if I am understanding it correctly. > is that you are the one who plays the move

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-25 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Strange - which document is it in? I couldn't find it. Exactly. The only restriction is that you are the one who plays the moves. Tournaments that forbid the use of chess engines will state it. I've heard that some postal events are still under the old code of honor, which also forbade document

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-25 Thread Justin Mcclure
Strange - which document is it in? I couldn't find it. On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 12:05 PM Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > Are you allowed to use computers to play correspondence chess? > > For ICCF competitions, yes: > > https://www.iccf.com/message?message=447 > > There are websites that forbid it,

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-24 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Are you allowed to use computers to play correspondence chess? For ICCF competitions, yes: https://www.iccf.com/message?message=447 There are websites that forbid it, e.g.: http://www.schemingmind.com/ -- Mobile secur

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-24 Thread cbannister
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:35:35AM -0400, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > And I'm using SCID every day extensively to play Correspondence Chess. This > means there's a very powerful engine running all the time. There's at least > one database opened as tree most of the times. Sometimes I even open two

[Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-23 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, I am glad to report that since I've updated to the latest SCID version, I have yet to experience one single crash. Not. One. Single. Crash. And I'm using SCID every day extensively to play Correspondence Chess. This means there's a very powerful engine running all the time. There's at lea