Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 14:51:14 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 17:28:46, Albert Silver wrote: >On May 08, 2000 at 12:04:50, Walter Koroljow wrote: > >>To achieve fairness (which is very hard to define), perhaps the best is not to >>limit the computer, but rather to allow people to use a computer (a >>"co-processor", as it were) during their games against computers. > >I must admit that the idea of handicapping the computer in a tournament for the >sake of 'fairness' sounds completely idiotic to me. :) I didn't want to start a troll, so I decided not to say it with these words. Enrique > Either the program is >playing, or it is not. What's next? Choose their openings? > >As for 'Advanced' Chess, even against a computer: I hate it. I can't even begin >to understand the desire to compete using a computer. What's the point? Where's >the fun in it? My Fritz (no offense meant to CB - this is just my recognition of >it as a common standard) is faster than yours? Eh??? The fun is in finding the >moves. Calculating. Having to make a decision. If you get rid of that then I >don't see the fun in competition. I know that for spectators it is very >interesting, not so much because of the programs but because they are allowed to >see what the players are looking at and preparing, but that could just as easily >be done without an engine. Have the players insert THEIR analysis for the >spectators to see and I think it would be far more interesting. > > Albert Silver > > >> >>This would stop claims of unfairness to people, would be very interesting (at >>least for me), and could be meaningfully continued for a very long time into the >>future. >> >>Cheers, >> >>Walter
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