Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 05:00:11 08/19/99
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On August 18, 1999 at 14:15:59, James T. Walker wrote: >Hello Shep, >I guess I'm not very sensible for wanting the program to play by the rules of >chess which includes playing by the clock. It's beyond my comprehension why you It is completely LEGAL to lose on time. I have seen many humans do that before so - indeed, you are not very sensible for wanting a chess program not to do something many many humans do from time to time. I do understand that this is beyond your comprehension :-)) Why do you think CSTal is names TAL and not Chess System ROBOT ?? Any idea ? Could it be that the program is named by tal because we wanted to make it human-like ? >would play a rated game in a tournament under time control conditions and not >think playing according to the clock is important. It is important, and although it is important i have seen many humans overstep time control. don't you ? it is important. but not forbidden or illegal to do it , or ? > That reminds me of a guy I >used to play golf with. He didn't think the rules of golf were important or >applied to him. as i told you - it is LEGAL to lose on time. it happens very often. it was made to lose on time. so it makes no sense NOT to lose on time, than the whole rule would be illogical. if nobody would lose on time, we would not need clocks anyway. i guess you are a little irritated in logic. maybe consider again about the topic would help ? > I like CST-2 but it has some problems which need attention. :-)) good that we have you :-))) >This one happens to be my pet peeve. The clock gives both players a fair >allotment of time which should be followed. If you fail to play the given >number of moves in the alloted time you lose! Other than that it's not >important. exactly. losing is not important. that is what i told you before. chris and i are not interested in winning or losing. we want to make the program stronger in playing not in not playing but following YOUR rules of importance. we have participated few championships with not losing on time. It was hiarcs that lost on time against cstal in paderborn 1995 when i remember it right. so maybe you should write an email to mark uniacke, author of hiarcs. :-) >Jim Walker
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