Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 10:55:16 04/24/99
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On April 24, 1999 at 08:52:58, blass uri wrote: > >On April 24, 1999 at 08:03:16, Dave Gomboc wrote: > > >>There is a good chance that there will be a chess tournament with two or three >>hundred people in my part of the world in a year or so. I inquired about >>software playing in the tournament, subject to some normal restrictions (only >>the author can enter a program, programs can't win a prize, players can opt to >>not play the machine). The response -- not from the actual organizer, but some >>of the people involved in the fundraising -- was the opinion that the only >>people who would play computers are the people who forgot to check off the box >>"don't want to play computers" on the entry form > >I do not agree about it. >There are people who want to play against computers. > >I did not play against a computer in a tournament game but >I played some years ago in a tournament when there was a computer and I could >tell before the tournament that I refuse to play against it and I did not do it >not because of memory problems. > >, and that if GMs wanted to play >>computers they could do it at home. > >They cannot win money prizes by winning the computers at home. > >I do not understand these people. >I could understand if they said that they do not like computers but they did not >give you a rational answer. > >Uri Well, it was clear that they wouldn't choose to play a computer in a tournament. They said they didn't know anyone who would, and felt that the GMs would feel the same way about the issue that they do. That this would be true isn't entirely clear to me, but it's certainly plausible, however much I might not like it. I have seen reports of Junior playing in over-the-board tournaments in Israel. What are the adjustments made to the tournament that allow the computer to play? (e.g. it can't win prize money) Dave
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