Author: vitor
Date: 19:23:22 06/15/99
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On June 15, 1999 at 19:11:27, KarinsDad wrote: >On June 15, 1999 at 17:41:46, Dann Corbit wrote: > > >It's not a matter of finding it disturbing. > >I do not find technology disturbing. I find technology fascinating. > >Advanced chess is to me is like putting a headset into a defensive backs helmet >in football (for both teams) and using a high powered microphone to pick up the >calls from the other team. Both sides can play a REALLY good defensive game >since they know what the other side is probably going to do (i.e. the headset >minimizes short term tactical mistakes just like the computer in advanced >chess). > interesting analogy. maybe thats closer to telepathy chess. but just to point out a technicality, in football, teams use all sorts of coded language to communicate on the field i.e. all that crap the quarterback says before taking the snap or making an audible. >But, then again, I do not like chess clocks with delays either. It could just be >that I am stuck in my ways. I like activities to be totally fair, above board, >and competitive. I think that using a computer is somewhat like cheating where >both sides get to cheat. I think that using a chess clock with a delay in order >to maintain a draw when you have used up 2 hours and 59 minutes of your time is >also somewhat like cheating. Mistakes are part of the game and time pressure >mistakes are definitely part of the game. This idea of attempting to minimize >mistakes with advanced chess and delays on chess clocks is just another way in >our society of trying to equalize everyone. > >There is a difference between technological advantages which improve performance >equally for everyone (such as your track shoe example) and ones like advanced >chess which can both minimize mistakes of one opponent (since the other opponent >may not have made that mistake in the first place) and give one opponent >opportunities in the contest that the other opponent may not have (by showing a >variation that the person may not have thought of on his own). > >I guess it's a morality type of issue with me, not a technological threatening >type of issue. > >It's not that advanced chess is so threatening, it's just that it is not chess. > >2 people, x amount of time, 1 chess board, good luck. i guess some people value the sport and drama aspect of chess a lot more than others. i just want to see quality chess and dont care how the moves were produced as long as theyre good. it just annoys me when a relatively good game is suddenly spoiled by time pressure or simple tactical oversights. > >KarinsDad :) > >PS. It wasn't great chess in the Anand Karpov dual. youre right. i only wish anand and karpov were playing advance correspondence chess.
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