Author: blass uri
Date: 13:56:15 05/16/00
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On May 16, 2000 at 16:28:05, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On May 16, 2000 at 15:21:43, blass uri wrote: > >>If programmers do not like it they will prefer not to give their programs to >>play. > >I doubt that very much, there's always going to be commercially available >programs. I think most GMs can afford to buy them. There are no restriction like no tablebases in the programs that GMS can buy. This restriction does not change much because tablebases do not help in most of the games but if there will be more restrictions then I believe that programmers will not want to play. > >>They need it if the improvement is dependent on hardware. >>It is possible that some change is productive with fast hardware but is counter >>productive with slow hardware >>It is possible that some change is productive with tablebases and is counter >>productive without them. > >That's probably true, but that's only relevant for slow hardware. The value of >the changes should be obvious whether you use fast or very fast hardware. You >know my views on auxiliary software improvements so I'm not going to repeat >them. > >>both sides have to agree. >>Not only one side. > >Yes that would be best, but I think that GM players are less dependent on >programmers than the other way around. > >>people use programs for analysis and for correspondence games and they want >>better programs. > >Yes, but they are a minority nonetheless. Is it reasonable that the ordinary >user pays the development costs of improvements they don't use. Offering >increase in prize money and paying for GM help isn't free. If the ordinary user does not have to buy something that (s)he does not use. > >>I think that there is no reason to give programs to play at tournaments if you >>give them restrictions that are not relevant for the humans who use them. > >Hardware restrictions could be very relevant for most of the users. Not everyone >owns a Quad Xeon or something similar. They will have better hardware in a few years so if they think about the future and not only about this year then it is relevant. Uri
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