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Subject: Re: Dutch championship question (Frederic)

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 03:04:20 05/08/00

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On May 08, 2000 at 05:26:27, Enrique Irazoqui wrote:

>Exactly! And don't forget that humans get tired, while computers don't, so let's
>unplug them every now and then. And what about this indecent crushing of one
>million positions per second? Anything faster than a Z80 must be prohibited.
>Fair is fair!
>
>Come on, Uri. Computers and humans should both play at their best, and this
>includes tablebases. Anything else is artificial and distorted.
>
>Enrique

Since Fritz plays artificial chess, it's already too late. So the lack of
endgame tablebases doesn't change anything. Using hash tables and processing
power as arguments is very bad reasoning IMO. Unless you want to argue that
computer vs. human games should be abolished.

Sincerely,
Mogens



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