Originally posted by powershakerAlright, let's get this straight. You claim to be a much better OTB player, but have given us no evidence to support this. You're making claims that are redicuous considering your rating, and you just expect us to believe it?
Correspondence graph on RHP you mean, wormwood? LOL! Correspondence where I use nothing and people use their resources? I'm not putting people down for playing correspondence chess and taking advantage of literature and databases. That's of course the rules. But, I am saying that there are a lot of 1800 correspondence players who in the end really ...[text shortened]... lect games with the best moves in response to other moves. I've seen it myself. It's a fact.
You're "subtly" accusing Sicilian Smaug of cheating because he went up 200 points. Have you ever considered that his early rating may have been lower than his actual skill?
Books and databases are allowed here. By not using them, you're penalizing yourself. We are not using "resources", you're wearing a blindfold. If you want to tell us you're a great player, either prove it here, or prove it elsewhere as you're trying to do. But until then, don't run your mouth.
And your claim about databases is ignorant. I have a 3 million game database, and I rarely have a game that stays in it past the 12th move. And that's just opening theory. When I have a tough tactical puzzle in front of me, the database isn't going to help.
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Originally posted by powershakerSo. Unless the game is over by move twenty or so, such "help" is irrelevant to the outcome.
p.s. CHECK IT! I knew this chick with a 2,000,000 game database. She just plugged the position in, and boom! The computer didn't help with the moves. But, that's legal in correspondence chess. Nothing wrong with researching a position, and if you play the same lines, you begin to collect games with the best moves in response to other moves. I've seen it myself. It's a fact.
Besides, my database is much larger than that. Still, I'd rather use the small one at http://www.newinchess.com/NICBase/.
Size does't matter; it's what you do with what you've got.
Originally posted by aspviper666You're kidding. The USCF now allows you to castle, moving the ROOK first?
it used to be the rule in U.S.C.F. over the board play that when you castle you move the king first OR move ur king and rook at the same time
i have heard this was changed that you may now move the rook first
i disagree with this rule change because castleing isnt a rook move per say it is a king/rook manuvre
If true, then ptooey!