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Subject: Re: The other games in the israeli league

Author: blass uri

Date: 05:48:41 03/18/00

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On March 18, 2000 at 05:25:24, Shanti wrote:

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>>I think that rules that upgrade are illegal are unfair and if I knew before of
>>my decision to work for Ed in the first place that I cannot change nothing
>>except opening books then maybe I would not want to operate Rebel.
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>>humans can learn between games and not only opening books so it is not fair
>>that computers have no right to learn between games.
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>I think you can argue whether using an upgrade is fair or not. I can state
>reason for both sides.
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>>Rami tal said that it is the same as playing with another player and I do not
>>agree because the difference in knowledge if you upgrade the software is
>>similiar to the difference in knowledge of the same player and not of different
>>players.
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>Again there is a big question is what an upgrade is. Actually you can wrap any
>new major version as an update.
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>>Do you mean that the second part (just wants to win) is twisting the truth or
>>also the first part (is not interested in computer chess)
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>>About the second part:
>>My experience with him is that he does every legal thing in order to win.
>>If someone got the impression that I say that he did something illegal then I
>>apologize.
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>>Some facts:
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>>Rami Tal demanded that I will play by the rules only before the game against
>>shredder.
>>He did not do it when he knew that I used the upgrade in the first time.
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>You assume he knew that you were using an upgrade before the game with Shredder.
>Actually I told it to him just before the round.
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>>Rami Tal also demanded that Junior will not be connected to the internet in the
>>game against shredder when I had no problem with it because I think that not
>>letting Junior to be connected to the internet is unfair and I do not care about
>>cheating because I believe Amir Ban and it is also posssible to check it.
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>I can see reasons for that as well. Will you allow a player to play in the
>league through a cellular phone?

I think that only if I can check that he does not cheat.

I think that I would allow humans to play by cellular telephone if they can care
that there is a camera following them in all the game and it is possible to look
at the movie of the game to see that they do not cheat.

I think that there are many rules that should be changed.

One of them is that if a team has not enough players the other players cannot
play.
I have no problem with punishment for the team who did not have enough players
but I think that punishing also the players who did go to play is not fair.


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>>Rami Tal also voted against computers in the league and this give me the
>>impression that he does not interested in computer chess.
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>Since I talked with him about that few times I know he has reasons for that (I
>agree with some of his reasons).

The main reason that I am for computers in the Israeli league is that
I am interested to see more games between strong humans and computers.

Does Rami tal suggest a different solution instead of the Israeli league to have
games of computers against humans?
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>>He prefered to take advantage of operator errors instead of letting the operator
>>to take back a move and play a real comp-comp games.
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>As a captain of a team I'm not sure what would I do. anyway you can argue what
>should you do in case of an error. When do you correct an error? after 1 move ,
>two moves, after ten moves atc. By the way the rules declares that the position
>on the board and clock are the game reference. What about the clocks? Why should
>a computer have better chances just because his operator is faster? We can just
>let the computer clocks decide (There is some logic in doing so).

There is a problem with letting the computer clock decide in comp-comp games but
in this case the slower operator will have an advantage because the slower
operator can use the permanent brain for more time.

I think the only logical solution is that the operators will use the same time
for operating their programs.

I also think that the difference between slow and fats operators is not very
significant.

being 10% faster give programs less than 10 elo rating advantage when operator
error is a big problem.

Best regards,
Uri




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