Author: Albert Silver
Date: 05:20:24 01/03/02
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On January 03, 2002 at 07:59:30, Ed Schröder wrote:
>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
Something like that. There's little point in trying to place rules that can't
possibly be policed or enforced. I knew this not terribly strong postal player
once, back when I was starting to play, who used to use his Fidelity Mach III to
help his analysis. It was kind of funny as he would come to the club with it
under his arm, and no pieces on it (for those who don't know, it's a
medium-sized plastic sensory box) and looking a bit like an accountant bent over
a calculator, would start punching the squares all over it at full speed with
his fingers and then some seconds later would flash the box around to show the
results on the display.
Albert
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