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Brave New World (Chess Life August 2011, Sandler)

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Perhaps no area of chess has changed more dramatically due to the rise of technology than has correspondence chess. Chess Life Magazine cover artist, Jon Cannell, pays tribute to this, showing the evolution from postal to correspondence chess from postcards to laptops.
 
RandomVisitor...

p.32 A Vietnamese woman living in Alaska, a lawyer from Toronto, a polymath from Ireland, an accountant from India, a scuba diver from Brazil, an electrical engineer from Virginia, a biologist from Norway, and over 5,000 others make up the Chessgames World Team. They are all chess fans who registered in Chessgames.com's series of massive online consultation games known as the Chessgames Challenge, that pits the members of the website against famous grandmasters (GMs).
 
p.33 The World Team was fortunate to have a member known as "RandomVisitor" who consistently provided a backbone of analysis with his high-end equipment and engine. His analysis gave the World a strong start as it branched out in many analytic directions. There is an art to using the computer well
 
p.35 This article could not have been written without the generous help of teammates like... John Jerz

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