Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 11:56:00 06/12/00
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On June 12, 2000 at 14:28:33, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >There definitely is. > >Every few weeks someone posts (pick one) >a) using an opening book is cheating/illegal/evil >b) using endgame databases is cheating/illegal/evil >c) humans should be allowed to use computers when they play computers >d) some other inane assertion >e) all of the above > >Then a mess of people agree with him, a different mess of people disagree, >eveybody yells at everybody for a few days, and then things go back to normal. > >-Tom That's very convincing except that only option a) has anything to do with the so called anti-opening book camp. Very few of those arguments have, to my knowledge, been about cheating, illegality or just pure evil. As far as I'm concerned, I just wonder why it's so complicated to make a program play chess from the first to the final move on its own. I thought that was the whole idea behing computer chess, but I could be wrong of course. I would think that it's a challenge for programmers to make a program do exactly that. Is it just too difficult? Best wishes... Mogens
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