Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 21:04:49 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 23:11:45, KarinsDad wrote: >His decision. Not yours. He made a point. He stuck to his principles. I applaud >him for that. When people stand up for their principles, they often are not >gentlemanly. Good point, that's always been my excuse anyway ;o). >My point of view (which you may feel free to disagree with) is that computer >game programs are for playing games, not for human competitions. I have no >problem with people setting up human/computer tournaments at all. I would >personally have a problem with my national tournament allowing computers to play >in it. I am not anti-computer. Rather, I am pro-human. Yes, and if someone really wants to arrange such an event, it should be with the participation of GMs that would relish the challenge. Championships of any kind is out of the question, no matter what amount of cash is offered. >I think a lot of members of this forum have started to equate human chess >players rights with human chess programmers rights. Sorry. The programmers have >no right to inflict their beast du jour on anyone else. Whether someone else >plays a program should be the choice of the human player, not the programmer, >not the chess association trying to find sponsers, not you, not me. We agree so much it's scary :o). Last time this discussion surfaced programmers were victims of apartheid (sic.), so a little thinking is required from a few people IMHO. Sincerely, Mogens
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