Author: Mike S.
Date: 11:47:39 04/20/00
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On April 20, 2000 at 07:18:19, Mogens Larsen wrote: >(...) >2) Chess programs either participates in special tournaments (ie. Aegon) or in >open tournaments where the other contestants know they're going to play a >computer. If GM's don't like it, they'll have to try another tournament. >(...) Option 2 should ensure the access of chess programs to >important tournaments the next 5-10 years, or until the programs becomes too >strong for a human competition. Then there would be no point of allowing >programs to compete. What is suggested here, is a kind of apartheid amongst chess players. Banning computers means banning humans also: The programmers and producers. Furthermore, if no computers participate in top level GM tournaments, how would you know when they are "too" strong? Imagine this would have happenend 15 years ago, with a 1950 elo chess computer and it's company sponsoring the championship (which is the case now, I assume). I don't think that anyone in the dutch chess scene would panic then. Therefore it's clear to me, that now, the *fear* of loosing (or see one's fellow dutch chess heroes loose) against the 2600+ machine monster is the reason for this ridiculous anti computer campaign. It's a shame. Regards, M.Scheidl
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