surprisingly enough there seems to be no rule here against outside help in any form. unlike other sites, Fencer seems to adopt the sensible attitude that since you can't check or enforce it, there's no point in having a rule against it.

there are several good players here that declare openly that they are in "cyborg" mode (that is, basically, human aided by program).


you'll find that correspondence chess clubs have varying attitudes towars computer aided play. one club I belong to, IECC, has adopted the rule that calculating moves is forbidden, but database search is equivalent to book search, and therefore allowed. as for me, I've adopted the same principle.