Author: Jeff Nouveau
Date: 01:39:45 04/07/00
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On April 07, 2000 at 04:06:56, Harald Faber wrote: >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? > >First let me say what others already mentioned: Better use the word PROGRAM >instead of computer. The computer can do nothing without the program. And what can do the program without computer ? Furthermore, you perfectly know that the computer has a huge impact : Pentium 133 and Athlon 1GHz don't give the same result... > >So, to answer your question, a computer has NO Nationality but the programmer of >the chess program has. Indeed...but who plays ? > >>2. Can a computer be a national champion? > >Computer no, program: why not? An arabian horse cannot be arabian champion of 400 m race, why ? He is arabian, and he can run. Because he is no human, maybe ? <snip> > >>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? > >I would go for it. :-) >But I fear FIDE has s.th. against it...and what if many other countries do the >same? We definitly need new rules, with human AND computers in mind, if we want to see this happen. I explained my views in an other post : the way it's done today is not fair. Jeff <snip>
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