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As a competitive chess player I have sometimes fantasised that there should be a rule allowing computer assistance providing you wrote the chess engine yourself
by billforsternz 7y ago
As a competitive chess player I have sometimes fantasised that there should be a rule allowing computer assistance providing you wrote the chess engine yourself. I've written a simple engine to complement my chess GUI but such a rule would definitely push me to massively improve it.
- thanatropism 7y agoIt should be fairly easy to setup a parallel Lichess (or whatever it is you use) account and compare Elo ratings?
- billforsternz 7y agoSorry I don't understand this comment. In case it's not clear I was talking about classical, over the board chess.
- croon 7y agoThere would be no difference other than acting it out on a physical board (as well).
- billforsternz 7y agoTrue, but I still don't get what grandparent was talking about. Comparing Elo ratings of what why?
- thanatropism 7y agoOf your account that plays with the aid of a chess engine and the one where you play unaided.
- billforsternz 7y agoOh okay, right. Well yes hypothetically if there was such a rule, yes you could do that. But there never will be such a rule so I have never and will never play with computer assistance. On Lichess or over the board or anywhere else. And even hypothetically I am not sure what the point would be of proceeding as you suggest. Obviously I would be better with the computer assistance and have a higher Elo. But only once I got my engine up to be much stronger than me (otherwise there'd be no point in bothering).