Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 10:52:56 05/20/00
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On May 20, 2000 at 13:16:29, blass uri wrote: Something tells me we've had this discussion before. Kinda deja-vuish :o). >Boris Galfend's opinion: >main strenght of chess programs (Fritz, Junior etc) are outside the program >itself. > >I disagree. >The most simple programs can play well without book. Then what's the problem? Let it play without book and see what happens. It could be interesting. >I think that forcing them to play without book is unfair because if they knew >that they will be forced to play without book they would write their program in >a different way. Then they should start writing their program in another way IMO. >I believe that it is possible to take advantage of the weakness of Junior by >getting it out of book early(there are many ways to do it) but unfortunately the >opponents do not prepare against Junior. If everything revolves around getting chess programs "out of book" then it's a very artificial form of chess. I believe you said that chess programs can make human players play better chess. The special kind of anti-computer chess style won't do that, since it wouldn't be effective against most top human players. >I hope that the opponents will prepare against Junior in the next tournament and >will force Amir Ban to fix the problem. I hope so too. >I do not like the fact that Junior does not know important things about the >opening like not getting out with the queen early but I do not think it is fair >to force Junior to play weak by creating new conditions that Junior is not ready >for them. Since there were no conditions in the first place, they can't be broken. You're inventing conditions that doesn't exist on paper, or anything else. >The programmers develop their program under some assumptions and it is simply >unfair for them to change these assumptions. If it's their own assumptions then it's not unfair. Sincerely, Mogens
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