Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 19:10:42 04/20/00
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On April 20, 2000 at 14:47:39, Mike S. wrote: >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). NEWSFLASH! this _did_ happen in 1984, to yours truly. I have given the details before, but can repeat them if you didn't catch the discussion... Cray Blitz won a state championship in 1984 and caused an uproar that lasted 2 years. It was often mentioned in the USCF policy discussions about what to do about computers. USCF decided that no action was better than a possibly wrong action, which led to the death of computers in US events... >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 There are several sides. Yes computers are strong. But there are other considerations. Computers don't get tired. Playing one can cost you a lot of money in the prize fund..
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