Author: Jay Rinde
Date: 21:10:12 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 16:45:49, KarinsDad wrote: >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 :) In this case the money was there and the players knew what to expect. After all, chess is a game, that is all. When I played OTB I didn't care who I played. I just wanted to play. I hated the half point bye. Of course, I was never professional. If I got paid, I think I would enjoy it more. And I don't think that I would cheat the organizers by taking their money and not being a sport. After all, chess is a game! Jay
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