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Subject: Re: Computers in national championships

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 02:36:43 04/07/00

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On April 07, 2000 at 04:56:36, Tony Werten wrote:

>On April 07, 2000 at 04:06:56, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>>3. Players in a national championship are members of the national federation.
>>>   Can a computer be a member of a national federation?
>>
>>Why not? You only have to care that program+hardware+operator+settings is one
>>team in this regard. Otherwise you might have 50x the same program but on
>>different hardware etc.
>
>I have read this remark a couple of times now. I don't get it. A human isn't
>allowed to play multiple boards. So neither is a computer ( program ), right ?

Correct.

>Yet a lot of people have this 50-Fritzes-nightmare.
>Tony

50 Fritzes, Chessmasters or whatever. In almost all programs settings can be
changed so that one can say it is a different program with which again you might
want to become a member of a national federation. That is what I think has to be
avoided.





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