Author: blass uri
Date: 05:14:13 06/12/00
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On June 12, 2000 at 07:29:21, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On June 12, 2000 at 06:53:48, blass uri wrote: > >>The user does have access to tablebases and opening book. >>Part of the users have excess only to cheap hardware when part of the users have >>excess to more expensive hardware. >> >>From the point view of the user it is important to have tournments when there is >>some limitation about the hardware and it is important also to have tournaments >>when there is no limitation about the hardware. > >No, I don't think the common consumer would find that important at all, since >the best programs are almost equally strong. Features and appearence will become >much more important than strength for the ordinary user and that's already the >case now. Computer programs are strong enough, unless you're a very good IM or >better. No I use chess programs for correspondence games and having the best program is important. part of the users use chess programs to play one against another and they prefer better programs. > >>It is possible to decide also about strict limitation that will have no >>importance for the user(hardware 386,not enough free memory for the opening book >>of the top programs and even not enough free memory for part of the programs so >>only small programs (not bigger than TSCP) can compete) >> >>I think that the last limitation can be used in the future in part of the >>human-computer when the humans are not very strong players because programs will >>have no chance against the best players with this limitation. > >I think it's highly improbable that such a setup/tournament will be used in the >future. It's much more likely that the program itself is capable of playing at >different levels much more precisely than today. BTW, tournaments are _not_ >supposed to act as consumer information, which seems to be your opinion. The ssdf tournaments are in order to give users information and there are many tournaments that private people do and they give the users information. I do not expect these tournaments to stop. My last idea about tournaments when only small programs like TSCP can play is not to give the user information but can encourage humans to agree to play against programs because they know that they have chances. It can also encourage programmers who have good ideas but have not a lot of time to work on their program to do something small that will be enough to be the best under some limitation of memory. Uri
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