He took so many of my pieces that he accidentally stalemated me! So I ended up drawing a veteran player in my very first game! We never played each other again after that, as I wasn't really interested in chess at the time. When I was eight years old in 1982, he taught me the rules and we played our first game. My father was a 'Fischer Boomer' and so he played the game for many years. 19th ICCF United States Correspondence Chess ChampionĪt right is the trophy for the 19th United States CC championship.Current rating: ICCF 2514 (ranked 9th in the USA).I loved it so much that I kept it as a desktop background for many months. Pogosiants Shakhmaty v SSSR 1976Īnother beautiful cover comes from the book The Chess Attacker's Handbook, a great read, and of course another cover masterpiece. Wolff Morrow is a great chess artist, and one can admire his masterpieces on the covers of the Gambit books.Ĭover of Extreme Chess Tactics by Yochanan Afek (2017)įor those who love studies, here is a close-up of the position, a checkmate in four six moves:Ī study by E. I never played correspondence chess, but I know it is very interesting, so I thought I should interview one of the best players in the United States. So why was I so excited to acquire this database? Because I believe it can teach me a lot! How? Let's say I want to learn an opening, where could I find the latest research made by computers and checked by humans? The question is rhetorical, since the answer is all there in the Correspondence Database. Practically, you could say, I'm a snail in a world of elephants and tigers. I'm not a correspondence chess player, I'm a tournament player, my memory is limited, and to calculate a five-move checkmate -especially if it is not a forced linear sequence - can take a while. Against such a creature, AlphaZero would have had difficulties to win even one game. The findings made by the Centaur are nowhere to be found, even in commercial engines (if a commercial engine is the top one to find!). The strongest chess player on the planet is the Centaur, one who has a machine dedicated to chess, an SSD (Solid State Drive) for the endgame tablebases - or an Endgame Turbo USB flash drive -, and an SSD for the opening repertoire, which has been deepened through the years with the Monte Carlo method. The mistake was to think the best engine is de facto the strongest chess player on the planet. Similarly, one could argue the AlphaZero programmers erred when they made their comparison solely against the top engine. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, Pla圜 welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster.Memorize it easily move by move by playing against the variation trainer. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Learn openings the right way! Build and maintain your repertoire.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Real Fun against a Chess Program! Play, analyze and train online against Fritz.
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