Author: Jürgen Hartmann
Date: 14:30:56 04/06/00
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On April 06, 2000 at 11:22:35, Jeroen Noomen wrote: >1. Has a computer a nationality? If its no special hardware like Deep Blue, I think the software is important. Then the software's nationality is the nationality of the programmer. >2. Can a computer be a national champion? Only if (big If!) it wins the national championship. >3. Players in a national championship are members of the national federation. > Can a computer be a member of a national federation? Getting invited to the national championship makes you a kind of member by honour, doesn't it? >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? No, unless the programmer(s) has/have several passports. Fritz should not play for e.g. the French title, I think. Maybe in the French league, but not in the national team/championship. >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. Thats not nice indeed. It seems the downside of the extraordinary PR and sponsoring support created for chess in the Netherlands. >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? Yes, I think so. There should be a computer board in every team. Like in the Israeli League, grandmasters killing computers seems possible and is exciting. Will need huge sponsoring money for FIDE and the players probably. >7. I am interested in who is the strongest player of my country. A computer > program has nothing to do with this. I am interested in whether Hollands clearly strongest chess software can win the national championship. Frankly, I slightly doubt this. >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? Then we should call him "Human National Champion" and the program "National Champion". >9. Can a national chess federation oblige somebody to play a computer? IMO > this can NEVER be the case. If a democratic decision is reached by the governing bodies - yes. > >I'll be very interested in the comments of other readers of CCC on these >questions! Thanks in advance and have a good day. > Thanks for the interesting questions, Jürgen.
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