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Subject: Re: Computer Chess version of my post

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 15:33:33 07/12/99

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On July 12, 1999 at 18:08:01, blass uri wrote:

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>
>I do not think that counting the number of chess positions is not computer-chess
>It is chess because we are talking about chess positions and it is related to
>computer because I used a computer program to calculate the bound.
>
>Uri

Uri,

I purposely threw that example in since it is borderline. It is like the example
of two people playing a game over the Internet by using computers. Some examples
are easy for one person to state that they are not computer chess whilst another
person will state that they are. The example of the maximum number of positions
is one such example since some people would say that it has nothing to do with
computer chess programs (i.e. chess playing programs or chess databases or chess
position analysis or chess playing interfaces, etc.) whereas another person such
as yourself will say that it does have something to do with computer chess (an
element of chess was calculated with a computer).

Another person could say that the URL for a web page for new FIDE ratings is
computer chess related since you need a computer to access those ratings (i.e.
the Internet is being used as a chess ratings database). Another person could
say that posting the URL is not computer chess related.

I do not always use black and white examples, but sometimes use ones that are
shades of grey to get people to think about it.

KarinsDad :)



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