Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 12:32:21 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.
>
>That a computer can take part in such an event raises the following questions:
>
>1. Has a computer a nationality?
When the hardware is general-purpose, I'd say it doesn't matter exactly where it
is made. Software, on the other hand, would have the nationality of its
creator(s).
>2. Can a computer be a national champion?
^
program
That's up to organizations to decide.
>3. Players in a national championship are members of the national federation.
> Can a computer be a member of a national federation?
Ditto.
>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?
Can a human with dual citizenship participate in both national championships?
>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.
Rules should be followed.
>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?
That would depend on FIDE.
>7. I am interested in who is the strongest player of my country. A computer
> program has nothing to do with this.
I don't think that's true. The computer program might be the strongest player
of a country. Or it may simply be a chess player to measure the strength of
other players against.
>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?
He won't come in second if he scores the most points.
>9. Can a national chess federation oblige somebody to play a computer? IMO
> this can NEVER be the case.
That question appears to have been answered. Van der Sterren is not playing the
computer program. :-)
>I'll be very interested in the comments of other readers of CCC on these
>questions! Thanks in advance and have a good day.
>
>Jeroen
Dave
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