Author: blass uri
Date: 13:27:14 05/12/00
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On May 12, 2000 at 14:41:39, Hans Gerber wrote: >On May 08, 2000 at 15:59:02, Stefan Meyer-Kahlen wrote: > >>On May 08, 2000 at 15:54:14, Jürgen Hartmann wrote: >> >>>>than 1%. I know of no other sport in which this is the case. Chess has to be >>>>flexible in finding sponsors, or it must be willing to return to the old >>>>backroom days when prize funds were miniscule and the greatest players on the >>>>planet normally died in abject poverty. >>> >>>You totally misunderstand organized chess players. You have probably never been >>>to a chess club yourself. Most organized chess players are completely >>>disinterested in publicity, sponsoring, public recognization etc. >>> >>>Jürgen >> >>If you are organized and professional meaning makeing your living with computer >>chess you have to be interested in those kind of things as this means more >>income for you. >> >>Stefan > >Agreed, but you should be interested in the nature (dignity etc.) of human >chessplayers too. > >Take Bosboom. He simply doesn't accept that a machine can take part in a >national championship. Now look what he did if the informations are correct. He >played a few moves and proposed a draw. He spoke to the human being on the other >side, the programmer, the father of the program. Interpretation: he wanted to be >friendly to the programmer but he didn't want to play the machine. Now, your >collegue showed little respect for the conflict of the chessplayer. You see, >friendly relations seem impossible if machines are in the center of interest. >Let me ask you if you really believe that a won point is worth always the same >no matter how it is won? I don't think so. Why not accepting the draw? This is >common practice in tournament chess. (see also the game SHREDDER vs Karpov...) accepting a draw after 4 moves will encourage most of the players to offer a draw after 4 moves(Even if they believe that the chances are equal they will prefer not to play and to prepare to the next round). In this case we will not see a lot of computer-human games. Uri
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