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Subject: Re: Deep Fritz won a correspondence game

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 15:11:12 05/15/01

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On May 15, 2001 at 16:37:29, Uri Blass wrote:

>The opposite.
>I do not understand decision of not allowing computers when you have no way to
>catch cheaters if they do not admit that they use computers.

but I have all the computer programs at home! I can let them play each other as
much as I like! The only reason for cc is I have a chance of playing humans....

>
>The general opinion of people that I talked with them is that forbidding using
>computers in correspondence games is useless because there is no way to catch
>cheaters so the best thing to do is to allow people to use computers.

Being unable to prevent a crime is being solved by allowing it?

>The reason to use computers for non programmers in correspondence games is very
>simple:
>People want to win.

I don't like to be an operator. It seems no fun to me.

J.



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