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Subject: Re: Does "huge advantage" equal an unfair advantage?

Author: Hans Gerber

Date: 16:27:04 05/16/00

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On May 16, 2000 at 19:03:11, Mark Young wrote:

>Translated from Dutch by me.
>
>Protest of Sergei Tiviakov 15 mei 2000
>
>By: Sergei Tiviakov(source: Royal Dutch Chess Federation)
>
>Protest of Sergey Tiviakov against the handling of Frans Morsch in corporation
>with Fritz SSS* (Frans Morsch)
>
>I did everything to win this game and also reached also a completely won
>position (evaluation -+). The operator should not play further with a evaluation
>of -2 (equal to two pawns) on time.
>
>*In this situation the computer is not equal to a human player and has a huge
>advantage. The operator has to give up at respect for the human player.*
>
>_______________________________
>
>
>I don't understand the logic of this protest. Can someone explain why just
>because a chess program is stronger then humans in some aspects and situations
>in chess, why this means the human should be awarded a win without winning the
>game?


Perhaps this helps. The logic is that the human would win against humans and the
human can't lose such a position, then the machine should lose and not draw the
game. We speak about classical tournament chess. Not rapid chess nor blitz.



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