Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 04:59:30 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 06:45:39, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On January 02, 2002 at 20:29:11, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>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? >> > >Which official rule? ICCF allows computer help. >José. Not in the beginning, later the policy "if you can't beat join them" was introduced to escape correspondence chess to collapse. Ed >>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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