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Subject: Re: Should computers play for the world championship? Heaven forbid!

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:11:10 07/27/99

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On July 26, 1999 at 14:42:56, KarinsDad wrote:

>On July 26, 1999 at 13:49:31, Mark Schreiber wrote:
>
>>I have a question that I have not seen in the opinion poll. Now that the Fide
>>world champion Karpov has drawn 1 game with Shredder at slow time controls,
>>should computers be allowed to play in the qualifying matches for the world
>>championship? Even if a computer did not become world champion, It would be
>>interesting to see how far a computer would go.
>
>My short answer is no.

But it would be VERY interesting if it were possible to establish that the world
champion in human chess plays a match against the no.1 of SSDF or the WCh of the
W(M)CCC.

>KarinsDad :)




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