Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 12:47:04 06/12/00
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On June 12, 2000 at 14:56:00, Mogens Larsen wrote: >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 Then you haven't been following these threads very carefully. I've read a ton of threads about how computers cheat and behave illegally. >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? It's obviously not too difficult for a program to play w/o a book or databases. Most chess software that I've used gives you the option of turning these off. As for the program playing "on its own," well, all programs play on their own, even if they are using an opening book. You ask the program for a move and it gives you one, on its own. I don't see the problem. -Tom
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