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Subject: Re: CCT4: almost all the top programs are there!

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 17:29:11 01/02/02

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On January 02, 2002 at 12:42:21, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 02, 2002 at 07:58:26, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote:
>[snip]
>>It would be nice if also Tiger, Rebel and Nimzo (and some other programs) join,
>>I keep my fingers crossed.
>
>I would be very surprised if they do join, and I admire Hiarcs courage for
>joining.  If Hiarcs can win on a single CPU machine, it will be amazing.
>
>Look at the commercial entrants of Deep Fritz and Deep Junior -- any single CPU
>professional program will have a 50% speed disadvantage.  Chances are good they
>will end up looking foolish if they join.  That is why they stay away:
>FEAR


You are right, it *is* fear as you say. Not the fear to lose but the fear of
being a candidate to accusations of cheating and accusations have been happened
in CCT1. Sorry but this my main obstacle.

Furthermore I don't want to put myself into the temptation to cheat, it is so
easy to force a move, take back a move, change the level to your needs. It is
crazy to think such things will not happen, that is not real. Whole sports are
posioned with forbidden drugs to perform better, why should 40-50 chess
programmers be any diferent?

In correspondence chess the official rule is not to involve chess programs and
what has happened?

The rules suck, period.

Last, I have no time. Loek van Wely is on the menu and Gandalf 5 is going to
play 4 correspondence games against 4 x IM's. I need all my time for those 2 new
events.

Ed



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