Author: Walter Koroljow
Date: 19:57:57 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? >2. Can a computer be a national champion? >3. Players in a national championship are members of the national federation. > Can a computer be a member of a national federation? >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? >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. >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? >7. I am interested in who is the strongest player of my country. A computer > program has nothing to do with 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? >9. Can a national chess federation oblige somebody to play a computer? IMO > this can NEVER be the case. > >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 I disagree with point #7. One measure of a human's chess strength is his ability to play computers. Cheers, Walter
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