Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 03:23:58 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 06:04:20, Mogens Larsen wrote: >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, ??? As opposed to "natural" chess? What would that be? As far as I can tell, chess is chess, no matter who or what plays it. > it's already too late. So the lack of >endgame tablebases doesn't change anything. Talking of "artificial"... Limiting the playing ability of a chess player is artificial, and it is an expression of fear, not one of fairness. > 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. I would like to see them encouraged, and when they happen both opponents should play at their best. Enrique >Sincerely, >Mogens
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