Author: KarinsDad
Date: 13:45:49 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 11:13:51, Don Prohaska wrote: [snip] > >If you are willing to play in a tourny with a computer, then either play it or >don't enter the competition! Certainly, the computer has an unfair advantage, >but if I were to play in a tourny with a Grandmaster he would have an unfair >advantage against me, but I would play him. Now that I think of it, any player >expert and above would have an unfair advantage against me. I do not think this issue is so black and white. I once went to a small tournament (14 players or so) thinking that I would have a chance to win a little. My first opponent was GM Rosendo Balinas. GM Joel Lautier was also at the tournament (they ended up drawing each other in the last round). There was no way that I thought that two GMs would be at this little podunk tournament. Would I have gone if I would have known ahead of time that they would be there? Probably. Just to meet them if nothing else. But the point is that people have a tendency to not want to play computers at a national event. And, these same people may have been planning to play in this event for a year or so now. So, as a player, do you say "Well, I think it sucks to have a computer in the tournament, so I am not going to play." or do you say "Well, I have been planning for this tournament for 8 months, so I will go and maybe I will not be paired up against it and if I am paired against it, I can always resign early and get in some extra rest.". Some people rely on shakey threats and tactics that may rattle a person, but wouldn't a computer. Do you think it fair to force people to play a different style of chess (i.e. only sound tactical chess) in order to win a game? So, should we make judgements about how others handle a situation that we ourselves are not in? KarinsDad :)
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