Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 15:15:52 06/12/00
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On June 12, 2000 at 16:51:27, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On June 12, 2000 at 15:47:04, Tom Kerrigan wrote: > >>Then you haven't been following these threads very carefully. I've read a ton of >>threads about how computers cheat and behave illegally. > >I'm not quite sure of that. I think the use of words like cheat and illegality >of behaviour are your enterpretation of the discussions. Therefore not entirely >objective IMHO. No, I distinctly remember multiple threads entitled "Computers cheat!", etc. >>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. > >No, that is obviously true of just about every program, but it's also a question >about the strength difference of a program with and without book. It just seems >like there's a trend to jump the fence at every opportunity. Something like: "I >can't make the program play decent opening moves so I'll add an opening book". >Or: "It's losing most of the endgames let's try TB's". Fortunately, there isn't, >AFAIK, a way around avoiding the middle game. Otherwise that would have been >eliminated too. No, no. Programmers are not avoiding the problem. They are solving it. Let's say you had to move a heavy rock from point A to point B. You start by kicking the rock, which makes your shins bruised and bloody and puts you in horrible pain. Then you realize that you can pick up the rock with your hands and carry it. Do you think that picking up the rock would be "avoiding the problem"? -Tom
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