Author: blass uri
Date: 15:11:53 05/12/00
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On May 12, 2000 at 17:33:35, Bertil Eklund wrote: > >What is this all about? I have seen that Shredder lost on time because the >operator talked in telephone, Fritz plays without tablebases, Rebel and other >programs wasn't installed when the game began and so on.Upgrades not allowed. >What is this for people ,have they ever used a computer or played with a >chess-program? Do they use hash-tables, do they use opening books etc. They use hash tables and opening books. I also know that Shredder used tablebases. I do not think that fritz lost points from not using tablebases. It lost the games against sofer and har zvi because of a mistake in the middle game and tablebases probably could not help. I do not think tablebases could help in the games that it drew(In most of them Fritz had not better position so tablebases probably could not help) All the program used opening books. I am against the decision not to allow upgrades and I am not going to operate next year if this decision will not be changed. I think >it's unfair against the respective programmers to let people without knowledge >serve the programs. > >Bertil I agree that not all the operators have knowledge about computer programs. I know that the operator of shredder(he voted against computer in the league) said that allowing upgrades in the software is the same as allowing a different player to play (he was afraid that programs will be 200 elo better from allowing upgrades)and was surprised when I told him that most of the improvement in the last years are because of hardware and not because of software. Uri
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