Jouni wrote:What do You think about this message in SF forum:
"sign up with ICCF and let stockfish make ALL the moves with no intervention on human part - in all probability your rating will not go over 2200"
I (as a ~2350 ICCF player) would guess this to be true.
Milos wrote:Time control is known, 864000+259200s. Processors if you have at least 16 at your disposal mean very little.
At that TC and with 16 cores Xeon server with 128GB of RAM and Cerebelum limited to 8 moves for example, newest SFdev alone would have ICCF rating of 2600+ and probably not lose a single game.
This is nonsense. Try it and find out!
I am not sure, if you would even pass 2000 with this approach.
Engines are still too stupid, too often to let them run alone. Want some examples?
The people who think that you can win with bigger hardware or newer engines dont have a clue how corr. chess works and more often than not, havent even played a single game.
Sure, better hardware and better engines help, but both are not the main factor. Time and patience is, especially patience. If you analyzed a position for days and you think you have it right, make a break for a day or two and look at it again with a different angle, different engine etc. You will nearly always find something new and this is a (nearly) endless process, chess is that deep, but at some day you have to make a move, or you dont have that much time, play too many games etc...
Just talk to people who are doing that for years, you will nearly always hear the same answers...
Also, as Rudolfo said, good tools and analysis methods help a lot, ways to propagate an eval up the tree, and I am working on such a thing ^^