Author: Hans Gerber
Date: 13:12:52 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 16:02:16, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On May 08, 2000 at 14:51:47, Hans Gerber wrote: > >>On May 08, 2000 at 10:18:42, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>How would you, as a scientist, handle this? Demand that he be injected with >>>prozac or something before each game? Add in a bit of sedative to calm him >>>down? I don't see how you can control your _opponent_, only yourself. >>> >>>I believe the question being asked/answered was just as I stated it. Kasparov >>>turned things into a zoo. Not the DB guys. >> >>Good one. >> >>But I was about something different. >> >>If your description of the past was correct, control in computerchess never was >>an issue. >> >>Now that 'you' claim to get to the top of the chessworld, you have to face that >>control of the output of the machine becomes one of the important points. > > >What would be the point? Logs would mean nothing if they _wanted_ to cheat. I >have already explained how this would happen. Get an impartial operator to make >sure no human was involved? Are you _sure_ there is no hidden connection from >the machine to a third party? Are you _sure_ that the operator isn't a >'sleeper' that will help DB? > >It simply isn't doable. The technology is too complex. And we are not even >sure that with an SMP program, that it will play the same move in the same >position every time, also a regular occurence in testing... So how to prove >anything? How to prevent cheating? How to prevent it from raining when you >want to go on a picnic? Good one! Someone had to tell me and Kasparov! :)
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