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Subject: Re: The Israeli league and computers

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 15:19:57 05/12/00

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On May 12, 2000 at 18:11:53, blass uri wrote:

>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.
>
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>
>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

I think that a person who voted against computer programs being able to play
isn't the best choice for operating a computer program!  Unless the phone call
was some sort of emergency, I think it is terrible that the operator was so lax.
 They should have insisted that somebody else do the operating instead!

Dave



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