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Subject: Re: Khalifman and Gelfand on computer

Author: blass uri

Date: 13:53:03 05/20/00

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On May 20, 2000 at 16:34:12, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On May 20, 2000 at 16:03:59, blass uri wrote:
>
>>You suggest to change the rules and it is not fair.
>
>They are _not_ rules. Rules are made with the consent of everyone involved.
>You're talking about common practice.
>
>>The idea to give programs to play without opening book has the same problem.
>>It is not fair to decide about a new rule when part of the players(in this case
>>the programmers are the players) are not ready for it.
>
>The programmers are not players.

I see the programmers as players because they worked hard for their programs.

If you do not let programs to use opening books then part of the programmers
will not put their programs in tournaments against humans.

If programmers worked hard based on the assumption that they will have the right
to use opening books against humans then I expect that they are going to refuse
to play if you change the assumption.

Uri



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