Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 09:10:16 04/06/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 11:22:35, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >Hi everybody, > >There have been a lot of reactions to my last posting, in which I told about >Fritz SSS* taking part in the Dutch championship. Unfortunately most of the >debate was related to 'should computers be allowed to play in human >tournaments'. This is of course an interesting subject, but for me the big point >is that we are talking about the national championship of my country Holland. Well, the danish championship is starting soon as well. I would hate to see Gandalf participate. I think I've already answered some of the questions, but I might as well improve my lack of popularity by offending some computer chess addicts. >That a computer can take part in such an event raises the following questions: > >1. Has a computer a nationality? No. Only humans can belong to a certain nationality. Patent rights don't count. >2. Can a computer be a national champion? Obviously not. >3. Players in a national championship are members of the national federation. > Can a computer be a member of a national federation? No. >4. Can the same computer take part in several national championships? > F.e. if the French, the German and the Brittish Chess Federations agree > that the same computer can play in their national championship, could we > have one and the same player be a champion of many countries? That would indeed be amusing. Your countryman Tim Krabbe has an amusing example concerning the olimpics. Only Fritz participating :o). >5. What about the rules, that state that if there is a free place in the > championship, this should be given to somebody with the highest rating or > to somebody who was knocked out in the semi finals. This has been violated > now and this player has every reason to complain. He should complain and the chess federation of the Netherlands has to process it according to the rules. >6. What if the machine will be the champion: Can (in this case Holland) this > country put the machine on board 1 of the Olympiad team? Off course not :o). >7. I am interested in who is the strongest player of my country. A computer > program has nothing to do with this. I agree. The same goes for all national championships. >8. A national championship is a serious event, now that Van der Sterren > refuses to play, his loss by forfeit is affecting the result. What f.e. > if Van der Sterren scores the most points, but will be 2nd because of the > loss by means of forfeit? Isn't Van der Sterren champion in that case? No, because he chose to participate in the tournament. If Van der Sterren wanted to make a point he could lose all the games as a protest or refuse to play at all. There's a difference between allowing computers to participate in national championships and refusing to play an opponent. >9. Can a national chess federation oblige somebody to play a computer? IMO > this can NEVER be the case. No, but the chess federation had a brain malfunction when allowing a chess program to participate. >I'll be very interested in the comments of other readers of CCC on these >questions! Thanks in advance and have a good day. Thank you. Best wishes... Mogens
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