Re: PBM design and formulae - a summary

From: gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Graham Matthews)

Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1993 17:59:55 +0000

desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins) writes:
> Graham Matthews <gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> > Now to my mind having the *exact* formula available to you in a game is
> > tantamount to allowing a player to have access to the chess library while
> > he is playing.
>
> There is a large community of chess players who play exactly this way:
> those who play by mail.  Since we are discussing play-by-mail games,
> this seems directly applicable.  Obviously it doesn't ruin the game for
> them.

We are not discussing simply play by mail games. You will note that :-

a) I explicitly stated as one of my assumptions that we were *not* talking
about any particulare types of games (read the article!).

b) the subject groups for this discussion are rec.games.design and
rec.games.pbm. The people in the former (where I read all these
articles from) are interested in more than just pbm games.

You will also note (as far as I remember teh governing rules) that people
playing chess by correspondence are on their honour not to use computer
or book analysis. If someone knows the exact FIDE rules please confirm or
refute this.

graham

References

Re: PBM design and formulae - a summary
markiel@callisto.pas.rochester.edu (Andrew Markiel)
Sat, 03 Jul 1993 06:33:53 +0000
Re: PBM design and formulae - a summary
gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Graham Matthews)
Sat, 03 Jul 1993 16:50:39 +0000
Re: PBM design and formulae - a summary
desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)
Sat, 03 Jul 1993 22:13:28 +0000
Re: PBM design and formulae - a summary
gym@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Graham Matthews)
Fri, 02 Jul 1993 11:37:19 +0000